LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oiled black chalk, heightened with white chalk on blue paper, within partial black chalk framing lines

Measurements:

15.79 in. (40.10 cm.) (height) by 12.72 in. (32.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in black chalk, lower left: Troost

Exhibited:

Boston, St. Botolph Club, . A Selection of Dutch 18th Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Gordon Collection , 2003, no. 16

Literature:

J.W. Niemeijer, . Cornelis Troost 1696-1750 , Assen 1973, p. 305, no. 530 T

Provenance:

Sale, Paris, R. Blay, 4 July 1929, lot 135 (reproduced);. with David Jones, London;. from whom acquired by the present owners in 2002