Old Master Drawings

Old Master Drawings

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 23. Recto: An old bearded man holding a bundle beneath his arm; verso: Various composition studies.

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, North America

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Recto: An old bearded man holding a bundle beneath his arm; verso: Various composition studies

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, North America

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London

Recto: An old bearded man holding a bundle beneath his arm;

verso: Various composition studies


Black, red and white chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso);

bears numbering in brown ink, verso: No 129.

367 by 231 mm; 14 ½ by 9 ⅛ in

Please note this lot has been withdrawn.
Collection of Lt.Col. J. C. Dundas, Fochtertyre, Stirling;
his sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 March 1946, lot 134;
collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, Portinscale, Cumberland;
their sale, Sotheby's London, 30 June 1986, lot 58;
with William Acquavella, New York, 1990;
Private Collection, USA
H. Vey, Die Zeichnungen Anton van Dycks, Brussels 1962, cat. 35, figs. 45-46;
A. McNairn, The Young van Dyck, exh. cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1980, p.79, under cat. 27;
A.W.F.M. Meij, Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck and their Circle, Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, exh cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2001, p. 200, under cat. 53;
S.J. Barnes et al., Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven, CT, 2004, p. 27, under cat. I.9
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953, cat. no. 275;
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Flemish Art 1300-1700, 1953-1954, cat. no. 483;
London, Colnaghi, Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, 1959, cat no. 37;
Antwerp, Rubenshuis; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Antoon van Dyck. Tekeningen en Olieverfschetsen, 1960, cat. no. 17;
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, 1965, cat. no. 32;
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, and Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Van Dyck Drawings, 1991, (catalogue by Christopher Brown; shown Fort Worth only), cat. 8;
Wellesley, Mass., The Davis Museum and Arts Center, Wellesley College, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections, 1993, cat. 11; 
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, The Young Van Dyck, 2013, pp. 80, 84, 232 (under cat. 57), 228-9, cat. 56