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Jacob Buys (1724-1801)

A Stage Scene: a seated Gentleman declaiming a Text to a young Lady
signed and dated 'J Buijs. F 1765.'; pencil, pen and grey ink, brown wash, grey ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark Strasburg lily
283 x 208 mm.

Lot Essay

A drawing of similar size and subject dated 1761 is in the Theatre Museum, Amsterdam (inv.no. TL49-3), in the same museum there is also a large study of a theatre scene (inv.no. TL49-9), acquired at Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 29 October 1979, lot 80, illustrated

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