Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck (Amsterdam 1566-1612)

An amorous couple

Details

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck (Amsterdam 1566-1612)
An amorous couple
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash, black ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark
13.9 x 9.2 cm.

Literature

P.J.J. van Thiel, 'Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem as a Draughtsman', Master Drawings, III, 1965, no. 2, pp. 138, 148, no. 2, pl. 11a (as Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem).
W. Wegner, Kataloge der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München. Die Niederländischen Handzeichnungen des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1973, p. 17 under no. 43 (as Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem).
P.J.J. van Thiel, 'Gerrit Pietersz.: Addenda en Corrigenda', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, XXXVIII, 1987, p. 365 (as neither Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem nor Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck).
H. Bevers, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlungen München, Munich, 1990, p. 72, under no. 58 (as Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck).
P.J.J. van Thiel, Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem 1562-1638: A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, Doornspijk, 1999, p. 491 (as Rejected).

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Lot Essay

Traditionally attributed to Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562-1638) this drawing was recognised as by the versatile Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck by Holm Bevers who compared it to a Preaching of Saint John the Baptist in Munich executed in the same technique with similar treatment of the figures and the trees (op. cit., no. 58). These two drawings must date from circa 1601 as they are close to two signed and dated sheets in the Rijksmuseum (K.G. Boon, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, nos. 402-3).

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