A costume study for the portrait of a lady

Details

Attributed to Cornelis Ketel (Gouda 1548-1616 Amsterdam)
A costume study for the portrait of a lady
black chalk on buff paper
9¾ x 7 in. (24.6 x 17.6 cm.)
with a study of a man and woman with a child, by another hand, on the verso of the backing card

Provenance

Unidentified collector's stamp (not in Lugt).

Literature

J.R. Judson, 'A new insight into Cornelis Ketel's Method of Portraiture', Master Drawings, I, no. 4, Winter 1963, pp. 39-40, pl. 27 (as Ketel).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

Judson's attribution to Ketel in his 1963 article (op. cit.) was made on the basis of stylistic similarities between the present drawing and the Costume study of a seated woman which appears on the verso of Ketel's drawing The Mirror of Virtue in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (K.G. Boon, Catalogue of the Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksmuseum: Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, no. 328).

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