Samuel van Hoogstraten

Schneider Collection, 1876 (according to Sumowski);
M.A. Marmontel,
his sale, Paris, 25-26 January 1883, lot 245 (as Rembrandt);
sale, Paris, 28-29 March 1898, lot 54;
Professor E. Perman, Stockholm,
thence by descent to the present owner

Laren, Singer Museum, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Professor E. Perman, 1962, no. 58

W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 5, New York 1981, no. 1122^x

Overall in good condition. There are a few tiny holes in the sheet which are barely visible and there are a few small brown stains.
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Sumowski related the present drawing to another by Hoogstraten representing the same subject, in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum.¹  That drawing is dated 1646, and he dates the present sheet to around the same time.  William W. Robinson has very kindly confirmed that this belongs to a group of some fifteen highly finished and pictorial drawings by Hoogstraten, almost all of them now in public collections, which he will discuss in a forthcoming article in Master Drawings.²  The combination of media seen in all these drawings is broadly similar, although the use of red wash is here more restricted than in some of the other sheets. The attribution to Hoogstraten has also been confirmed by Peter Schatborn.

1. W. Sumowski, op cit., no. 1121^x
2. The article will be the published version of his paper delivered at the Getty Museum symposium, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils, Telling the Difference, in February 2010.