LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk, touches of pen and black ink

Measurements:

7.99 in. (20.30 cm.) (height) by 7.60 in. (19.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with date '1652' (recto) and with inscription 'c. Visscher' and 'bought from W.B Joffroi f' (?) and '3stu' and '16' (verso); watermark IHS with cross

Condition:

brown ink framing lines

Literature:

B.J.L. Coenen, 'The drawings of the Haarlem Amateur Leendert van der Cooghen', Master Drawings , XLIII, 2005, no. 1, pp. 23, fig. 20, pp. 28, and 49, no. A14

Provenance:

Unidentified collector's mark (L. 896). Possibly Cornelis van Noorde and Willem Oudenaarden, Haarlem; Vincent van der Vinne; Haarlem, 1-2 November 1796, Album F, lot 450 ('Een huilend Kind, door L. v. d. Cooge.')