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PIETER JANSZ. QUAST | The Quack Doctor
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Pieter Jansz. Quast
- The Quack Doctor
- Black chalk, within partial black chalk framing lines, on vellum;bears attribution, number and lettering in black chalk, verso: Pet. Quast...1897...N=;signed in black chalk, lower right: Pieter Quast
- 227 by 358 mm
Provenance
August Artaria (L.33);
possibly his sale, Vienna, H.O. Miethke, 12 January 1886;
Julius Gustav Licht;
Dr. Arthur Feldmann, Brno,
sale, Lucerne, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, 28 June 1934, lot 221 (unsold);
acquired in 1960 by a London private collector,
by descent until sale, New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2010, lot 77,
where purchased by the late owner
possibly his sale, Vienna, H.O. Miethke, 12 January 1886;
Julius Gustav Licht;
Dr. Arthur Feldmann, Brno,
sale, Lucerne, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, 28 June 1934, lot 221 (unsold);
acquired in 1960 by a London private collector,
by descent until sale, New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2010, lot 77,
where purchased by the late owner
Catalogue Note
This is a fine example of the comic scenes depicted by Quast, which were often drawn from specific sources in popular theatre. The Quack Doctor was frequently satirised in Dutch 17th Century art and indeed another drawing by Quast, showing the fraudster selling his wares, was sold in New York in 2015.1 1. Sale, New York, Christie's, 29 January 2015, lot 47