LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk, pen and brown ink, incised

Measurements:

7.24 in. (18.40 cm.) (height) by 10.24 in. (26.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Martenvs Van / Heemskerck j invent / 1559' (lower right)

Literature:

E.M. Zafran, Master drawings from Titian to Picasso. The Curtis O. Baer collection, exh. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art and elsewhere, 1985, p. 60.A. Moir, ed., Old Master Drawings from the collection of John and Alice Steiner, exh. cat., Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1986, p. 179, under no. 76.

Provenance:

R. Freiherr von Kühlmann.with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Neue Lagerliste 60, 1972, no. 27.H.R. Bijl; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 17 November 1993, lot 16.