Head of a young woman looking down

Details

Attributed to Pieter Aertsen (Amsterdam 1507/8-1575)
Head of a young woman looking down
black, white and red chalk on (faded) blue paper
246 x 180 mm.

Provenance

K. E. Maison.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1986, lot 69 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-118).

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Lot Essay

Formerly attributed to Leendert van der Cooghen, the present sheet is comparable in facial type to the head of Mary in Aertsen's Christ with Martha and Mary in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, Leiden, 1975, XIII, no. 306, pl. 153.

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