LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Black lead, black chalk and black ink wash on vellum

Measurements:

12.17 in. (30.90 cm.) (height) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed in brown ink, within the drawn cartouche: Cornelia Hessels Justi F.; bears faint old attribution in black chalk, lower right, Mieris and numbering: 35

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum,. Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Nationalmuseum and other Swedish Collections, 1953, no. 260;. Laren, Singer Museum, . Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden, Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm, 1962, no. 114

Literature:

W. Bernt,. Die niederländischen Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1957-58, vol. II, no. 260, reproduced;. W. Bernt, . Die niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts , Munich 1979-80, vol. V, no. 565, reproduced;. R. Ekkart,. Deaf, Dumb & Brilliant: Johannes Thopas, Master Draughtsman , exhib. cat., Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, 2014, pp. 65-71 and p. 120, no. 28, reproduced

Provenance:

Victor Winthrop Newman (L.2540),. his sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, 2-3, February 1920, lot 137 (as Willem van Mieris);. Prof. Einar Perman, Stockholm, before 1953