Venus scolding Cupid (recto)

Details

Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht 1616-1680 Amsterdam)
Venus scolding Cupid (recto)
Fragment of a seated man (verso)
black and white chalk on grey-blue paper (recto); black chalk (verso)
183 x 287 mm.

Provenance

Bernard Houthakker (L. 1272); Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 17-18 November 1975, lot 147 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-67).

Literature

W. Sumowski, 'Zeichnungen Rembrandts und seines Kreises im Kupferstichkabinett der Veste Coburg', Jahrbuch der Coburger Landesstiftung, VII, 1963, p. 93 (as Bol).
J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck, Amsterdam, 1965, p. 49, note 3 and no. D32 (as Flinck).
A. Blankert, Ferdinand Bol 1616-1680, een leerling van Rembrandt, The Hague, 1976, pp. 63 and 166, under no. A34 (as Flinck).
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 1, New York, 1979, no. 117 (as Bol).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This arrangement of figures, with alterations associated with the shift of focus to a male figure added to the left of the composition, was used by Bol for the right hand side of his picture of The artist and his family in Dordrecht, A. Blankert, op. cit., no. A34. The handling of the present sheet owes much to Flinck, an influence that may reflect the two artists' cooperation in life-drawing groups, as noted by Professor Sumowski, op. cit. under no. 119.

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