Govert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam)

A reclining female nude

Details

Govert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam)
A reclining female nude
black and white chalk on buff paper, indistinct watermark
9¾ x 13½ in. (24.6 x 34 cm.)

Provenance

with J. Peters, The Hague; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 10 November 1930 for 2.50 guilders (Inventory book: '1028. t. Backer naaktstudie').

Literature

J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck 1615-1660, Amsterdam, 1965, no. D221 (as Flinck with Backer characteristics).
C. van Hasselt, in Rembrandt and his century: Dutch drawings of the seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt, exhib. cat., New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, and Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1977-78, p. 61, under no. 41, note 1.
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1981, IV, no. 941x.

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Benjamin Peronnet

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

Von Moltke and Sumowski both note that the same model appears in the drawing of A nude woman seated at the Courtauld Institute, London (Sumowski 942x). Sumowski dated this drawing to the mid 1640s.

Altri da The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part II. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500-1900

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