The head of Christ

Details

Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695/96-1754)
The head of Christ
signed 'J d Wit', with extensive pen inscription (verso)
black chalk, point of the brush, grey wash, brown ink framing lines
23.6 x 20 cm.

Provenance

Hector Colarol; Brussels, 2 May 1925 (according to an inscription on the verso).
Albert van Loock (born 1917) (L. 3751).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

A closely comparable sheet, showing Christ with head and shoulders and reversing the composition of this drawing, is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. 23.148; F. Lugt, Musée du Louvre: Inventaire Général des Dessins des Écoles du Nord: École Hollandaise, II, Paris, 1931, no. 905). De Wit made many versions of the head of Christ, and also of the Virgin (see lot 7) and Moses. At the sale of de Wit's estate on 10 March 1755 in Amsterdam there were no fewer than thirty heads each of the Virgin and Christ and nine of Moses.

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