Details
Attributed to Jan Saenredam (Zaandam 1565-1607 Assendelft)
A double-sided sheet of studies of heads
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown ink framing lines
7¼ x 5¼ in. (18.5 x 13.5 cm.)
Provenance
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765) (L. 2951), with his paraphs and numbers '2275' and '2276' and his attribution 'Saenredam'; Rémy, Paris, 18-28 January 1779, part of lot 308.
Literature
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, Oxford and London, 1930, p. 184.
E.J.K. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, Utrecht, 1961, p. 175, note 87.
H. van Hall, Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, Amsterdam, 1963, p. 287.
J. Labbé and L. Bicart-Sée, La collection des dessins d'Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris, 1996, p. 273, under nos. 2275-76.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, 1929, no. 530.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Dessins hollandais de Jérôme Bosch à Rembrandt, 1937-38, no. 35, pl. XXIV (catalogue by F. Schmidt-Degener).
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 1961, no. 247, pl. 236.
Paris, Fondation Custodia, Saenredam, 1970, no. 62, pl. 55.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 113, pl. 16 (as Jan Saenredam; catalogue by J. Giltaij).
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