Studies of two men wearing oriental dresses

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SCHOOL OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)
Studies of two men wearing oriental dresses
pen and brown ink
5 1⁄8 x 4 in. (13 x 10 cm)

Provenance

Emile Wauters (1846-1933), Paris (L. 912); Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 16 June 1926, no. 153 (as Rembrandt).
with Louis Godefroy (Estampes et dessins, IX, Paris, 1926, no. 644, ill.).

Literature

F. Lees, The Art of the Great Masters as exemplified by drawings in the collection of Émile Wauters, membre de l'Académie royale de Belgique, London, 1913, p. 118, ill. (as Rembrandt).

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Lot Essay

As first noted by Martin Royalton Kisch (email communication), the figures seem to derive from those on a sheet by Rembrandt in the University Library in Warsaw (inv. zb.d.4285; see P. Schatborn, Rembrandt. The Complete Drawings and Etchings, Cologne, 2019, no. D385, ill.).

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