DUTCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY | STUDY OF A BOY STANDING ON ONE LEG

SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

DUTCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY

STUDY OF A BOY STANDING ON ONE LEG

Black, red and yellow chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper;

bears early inscriptions in pen and ink, on the reverse of the backing: 3, N^o= and Vte.,  and later inscriptions, in black chalk: Berent Avercamp (deleted) / Willem Buyteweg  and  WOttley / Given me by my Brother / Herbert, March 24 1857

sheet: 13⅝ by 9¾ in; 343 by 246 mm

framed: 24 by 18 in; 610 by 457 mm