A young man leaning on a chair, in the midst of telling a story

Details

Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
A young man leaning on a chair, in the midst of telling a story
black, red and yellow chalk, touches of brown and grey wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark CDG
12 x 8¼ in. (30.5 x 21 cm.)

Provenance

Unidentified collector's mark, previously thought to be that of the Fürst von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (L. 2087), with a fragment of a sale catalogue: '136. C. Dusart. Un Paysan, debout. Très Beau Dessin, à la sanguine & à la pierre noire & colorié, haut de 11¾, large de 8 pouces'.
Dr M. Schubart (L. 1916); his sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, 26-27 October 1899, lot 273, illustrated (500 marks to Helbing).

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Lot Essay

Examples of similar works are in the British Museum, London (inv. 1836,0811.117; Hind 5), the Institut Néerlandais, Paris (inv. 2000; Rembrandt and His Century: Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from the Collection of F. Lugt, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, exhib. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1978, no. 33) and the Maida and George Abrams Collection (Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings: A selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinett, 1991, no. 97). The latter was considered to be a pendant of the present drawing when they were both included in the Schubart sale.

We are grateful to Dr. Susan Anderson for confirming the attribution to Dusart on the basis of a photograph.

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