A Monk holding a Sword; A Monk embracing a Statue of the Virgin; A bold Monk holding a Rod; A Pilgrim undressing; A Monk wearing a Hat eating a Cake (?); A Monk looking up at a Bat; and A bearded Monk drinking, wearing a Paper Crown

These watercolours are part of a larger series, of which twelve similar ones are the Prentenkabinet, Leiden, J.G. van Gelder, Honderd teekeningen van oude meesters, exhib. catalogue, Rotterdam, 1920, p. 24, nos. 42-53, illustrated, some of which are signed with initials. Another is in a private collection, Paris. The drawings ridicule the French Catholic clergy under King Louis XIV, and were so popular among 17th Century Dutch protestants that some of the Leiden drawings were engraved as mezzotints and published in both Les Héros de la Ligue ou La Procession Monacale, conduitte par Louis XIV, pour la Conversion des Protestants de son Royaume, Paris, 1691 and Renversement de la Morale Chrétienne, of the same time (Holl. [VI] 63-88). A series of mezzotints with monks and nuns lampooning the Catholic church is close in spirit to that (Holl. [VI] 57-62).
Four comparable drawings dated 1690 of different format are in the Unicorno Collection, C. Dumas, R.-J. te Rijdt, Kleur en Raffinement, Tekeningen uit de Unicorno collectie, exhib. catalogue, Zwolle Amsterdam Dordrecht, 1994-5, pp. 66-8, no. 22. Another was sold, Phillips, London, 17 April 1996, lot 123. With these drawings of satirical character, Dusart continued a tradition started by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.