Crispyn van de Passe I (c.1565-1635)

Study of the Head of a Girl

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Crispyn van de Passe I (c.1565-1635)
Study of the Head of a Girl
black and red chalk, brown and red wash, black ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark coat-of-arms
104 x 92 mm.

Provenance

C. Ploos van Amstel (L. 3003), his inscription ...'hoog 4 duym/...breed 3 A van dyck (verso); P. van der Schley, J. and B. de Bosch, J. Yver and C.S. Roos, Amsterdam, 3 March 1800 ff., lot B36: 'Het afbeeldzel van een jong Meisje, fraai met rood en zwart kryt geteekend, door A van Dyck' (Dfl. 4 to Yver).
H. Baron de Triqueti (L. 1304).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Mak van Waay, 29 October 1979, lot 221, illustrated p. 82 (Nlg. 7,400).
Anon. sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 25 November 1991, lot 45, illustrated (Nlg. 22,000).

Lot Essay

The attribution is based on comparison with similar drawings attributed to the artist in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (K.G. Boon, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the Rijksmuseum, The Hague, 1978, I, pp. 141-3, nos. 392 and 398, II, illustrated pp. 150-1). As Dr. H.-U. Beck has kindly pointed out, no. 398 also comes from the Ploos van Amstel collection, lot B33 (Dfl. 1.10 to Yver). This would explain the same handwriting on the drawings.

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