A boy holding a fish and a small box, leaving a bay

Details

Hendrick Goltzius (Muhlbrecht 1558-1617 Haarlem)
A boy holding a fish and a small box, leaving a bay
signed with monogram and dated 1607
black and white chalk on blue paper, pen and brown ink framing lines
295 x 137 mm.

Provenance

Probably G. Schroder; Amsterdam, 20 February 1764, lot 285.
Anonymous sale; Frankfurt, 12 November 1918, lot 161.
Mrs. Mary van den Berg.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 16 November 1981, lot 8 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-101).

Literature

E. K. J. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, 1961, no. 191a, fig. 452.

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Lot Essay

First recognised by Professor Julius Held, the sheet is dated by Professor Reznicek to circa 1606; he connects it with the series of Christ and the Apostles in which the apostles are portrayed as Dutch fisherfolk, (Reznicek, op. cit., nos. 50-62) and with the series of peasant studies of the same year (R. 181-191).

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