Four Men around a Table in a Tavern

Unlike most of his contemporary Dutch colleagues, Pieter Quast very frequently executed his drawings, which he often signed (or initaled) and dated, in black lead on vellum. A drawing equally initialed and close in style to the present sheet representing the Death and the Rich is in the Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, V, Munich, 1980, no. 485, illustrated. A large group of drawings by Quast, probably coming from an album, is in the Louvre, Paris, Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du nord, II, Paris, 1931, nos. 579-653.