LOT DETAILS

Materials:

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash

Measurements:

15.35 in. (39.00 cm.) (height) by 13.78 in. (35.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with inscriptions in ink 'L. Pierre' (?) (bottom left, recto) and illegible inscription (bottom right, recto), and '26' '476' and '5257' in graphite by a modern hand (verso)

Condition:

recto), and '26' '476' and '5257' in graphite by a modern hand (verso)

Literature:

J. Bruyn, ‘Some drawings by Pieter Aertsen’, Master Drawings, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 361, 365, note 15. W. Kloek, ‘Pieter Aertsen en het probleem van het samenstellen van zijn oeuvre’, in Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek 1989, XL, The Hague 1990, Pieter Aertsen, p. 21, fig. 35 (as workshop of Aertsen). idem, ‘De tekeningen van Pieter Aertsen en Joachim Beuckelaer’, in Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek 1989, XL, The Hague 1990, Pieter Aertsen, pp. 140-141, no. A.6 (as workshop of Aertsen).

Provenance:

with Hans Calmann, London, 1958.