Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)

A young man lounging, smoking a pipe

Details
Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
A young man lounging, smoking a pipe
black, red and yellow-brown chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper, brown ink framing lines, countermark with initials LO
21.5 x 18.2 cm.
Provenance
Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891) (L. 1687).
Freiherr Reinhold von Liphart (fl. 1890-1920) (L. 1758); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 26 April 1898, lot 296.
Anonymous sale; Hertzberger, Amsterdam, 23 May 1940, lot 64, illustrated.
Jan Frederik Bianchi (1878-1963) (L. 3761); Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 23-27 November 1964, lot 167.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 47, pl. 92 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

Dusart was a pupil of Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) and the influence of his master is noticeable in his paintings, drawings and prints. He probably inherited Ostade's entire studio and used it intensively, completing Ostade's paintings and adding wash and watercolour to some of his drawings. Both Dusart and Ostade executed a large number of figure drawings. While Ostade's figure drawings were preliminary studies, Dusart's can be seen as works of art in their own right. These highly finished and often coloured drawings such as the present one, were sold separately to collectors according to a notebook in Dusart's possession (see P. Schatborn, Dutch Figure Drawings from the seventeenth century, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1981-82, pp. 110-12).

We are grateful to Dr. Susan Anderson who has confirmed the attribution to Dusart on the basis of a digital photograph.

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