Louis Fabritius Dubourg

Window mounted. Remains of former backing paper stuck to corners, verso. One or two minor pinholes. A few light spots, paper surface a little dirty, especially top right coner, but chalk good and fresh.
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A pupil of Jan van Huysum and Bernard Picart, Dubourg was an active member of one of the various drawing academies that flourished in early 18th-century Amsterdam.  A number of large-scale red chalk figure drawings by him are known:  two examples dated 1723 and 1726, rather in the manner of Picart, are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.¹

1.  Inv nos. RP-T-00-1130 and 1131; see R.J.A. te Rijdt, Nederlandse Figuurstudies 1700-1850, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1994, nos. 30-31.