A group of four nude women holding two baskets of flowers

Details

Karel van Mander (1548-1606)
A group of four nude women holding two baskets of flowers
signed '.KvM.' and with inscription 'JJ Ken fing f 7800k' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, in an 18th Century frame
172 x 161 mm.

Provenance

An unidentified collector's paraph 'AVB' below a cross.

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Lot Essay

Close in handling to a group of drawings in the Albertina, Vienna (O. Benesch, Die Zeichnungen der Niederländischen Schulen des XV. und XV. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1928, nos. 360-5) and to another, also signed, in the Louvre (F. Lugt, Maîtres des anciens Pays-Bas nés avant 1550, Paris, 1968, no. 720).

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