A woman seated at a dressing table

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(2) Aert Schouman (Dordrecht 1710-1792 The Hague)
A woman seated at a dressing table
signed and inscribed 'A. Schouman na Metsu 1776 in het Cabinet van de Heer Jan Tak. Medec[ij]ne Docter te Leiden' (verso) and with inscription 'Charmant dessin du fameux Aart Schouman d'après un tableau de Metsu, qui se trouve dans la Wallace Museum à Londres, mentionné par Hofstede de Groote dans son fameux ouvrage. [signed] Bredius' on a label attached to the mount
black chalk, watercolour, pen and brown ink framing lines
194 x 160 mm.

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Lot Essay

As Abraham Bredius notes on the label attached to this drawing, the painting by Metsu of which this drawing is a record is now in the Wallace Collection, London (J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, IV, Dutch and Flemish, London, 1992, no. P206). Schouman's own inscription confirms that the painting was owned by the famous Leiden collector of drawings and paintings Dr Jan Tak in 1776, and was therefore almost certainly lot 17 in his sale on 5 September 1781.
Another drawing by Schouman after a painting in Tak's collection, Terborch's Woman spinning, was sold in these Rooms, 25 November 1992, lot 647.

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