Circle of Jan van Noordt (1620-1676)
Circle of Jan van Noordt (1620-1676)

A girl, head and shoulders, looking down - a sketch

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Circle of Jan van Noordt (1620-1676)
A girl, head and shoulders, looking down - a sketch
oil on paper laid down on canvas
26.4 x 20.6 cm
Sale room notice
Additional provenance: H. P. Bremmer; thence by descent

Please note that the estimate should read NLG 25,000-35,000.

The present picture is now thought to be North Italian, early 17th century. An attribution to Cristoforo Casolani has been suggested.

Lot Essay

The style of the present work, in its loose and free brushwork is to be associated with the work of Jan van Noordt. Compare for instance with the head of Ruth in the picture of Ruth and Boas, sold at the Butôt, Sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16 November 1993, lot 91, ill. (W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt Schler, 1994, VI, n0 2399).
Sketches such as the present one are rare in painting of the 17th century. They were probably executed in the painter's studio from life models. Compare also with the portrait of a young woman, formerly attributed to Jan de Bray, in the Museum voor Beeldende Kunsten, Ghent (J.W. Moltke, "Jan de Bray", in Marburger Jahrbuch der Kunstwissenschaft, XI/XII, 1938/9, pp. 493/4, n0 F30 fig. 61).

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