Dutch School, 17th Century

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

A man, seated, raising a glass in his left hand, his right hand on his hip
Black chalk, heightened with white, within black chalk framing lines, on blue paper

Catalogue Note

This lively, well-drawn study is reminiscent of figures found in the paintings of Anthonie Palamedesz. (Delft 1601 - 1673 Amsterdam), and the facial type is also reminiscent of that artist, but as Peter Schatborn has noted, no chalk figure studies have so far been conclusively attributed to him.¹

^1. P. Schatborn, Dutch Figure Drawings from the seventeenth century, exh. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1981-82, p. 76