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Utrecht School,
mid-17th century-
Studies of heads;
black chalk on irregularly-shaped paper, a...
Price Realised: £918
Estimate: £200 - £300
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Lot 141
Description
Utrecht School,
mid-17th century-
Studies of heads;
black chalk on irregularly-shaped paper, a faint black chalk sketch of a landscape on the verso of the backing, 20.6 x 27.3 cm.
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 10 November 1998, lot 13.
Property of the Late Professor Eric Gerald Stanley, FBA (1923-2018) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Stanley).
Note:
When offered at Sotheby's in 1998, it was noted that various suggestions have been made as to the date and country of origin of this unusual drawing. The most convincing of these appears to be that it was made around 1650 by one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti. The facial types and the general raw energy of the drawing correspond well with the painted works of these artists, and in particular with those of Dirck van Baburen (c.1594-1624), but the attribution of the drawing to this artistic milieu must nonetheless remain tentative, as there are in any case extremely few securely attributed drawings by the Utrecht Caravaggisti.
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