Nine Men around a Table, some smoking or playing cards

Details

Attributed to Jan Lievens (1607-1674)
Nine Men around a Table, some smoking or playing cards
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown ink framing lines, framed
158 x 220 mm.

Provenance

Dr. C.R. Rudolf (L. 2811b), his attribution to 'Jan Lievens' on the mount.
Edward Jacobs, London.
Galerie J. Kraus, Paris.

Literature

W. Wegner, Die Niederländischen Handzeichnungen des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, Kataloge der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München, Berlin, I, 1973, p. 101, under 693 ('Lievens; somewhat doubtful').
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1983, VII, no. 1637^x.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Kraus, An Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1977, no. 29 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Professor Sumowski compares the drawing to a River Allegory, no. 1633^x, as being by the same hand, and to a drawing in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, no. 1635^x. He dates the present drawing to late in the artist's life, to circa 1670.

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