Portrait of a man standing at a desk

Details

Attributed to Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (Haarlem 1562-1638)
Portrait of a man standing at a desk
with inscription 'Spranger pictor' (verso)
pen and brown ink, and brown wash, brown ink framing lines
13.6 x 9.6 cm.

Provenance

Jacob de Vos Jbzn. (1803-1882) (L. 1450).
Anonymous sale; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 9-11 March 1920, lot 499 (as Bartholomeus Spranger).
with Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; received in part exchange by I.Q. van Regteren Altena with six other drawings and one painting in June (?) 1925 (?) (Inventory book: '110. t. Spranger zijn portret').

Literature

E.K.J. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, Utrecht, 1961, p. 483 (as Rejected).
H. van Hall, Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, Amsterdam, 1963, p. 312, no. 7 (as Hendrick Goltzius).
P.J.J. van Thiel, Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem 1562-1638. A monograph and catalogue raisonné, 1999, p. 492 (as Rejected).

Exhibited

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. 71, pl. 17 (as Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem; catalogue by J. Giltaij).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

This drawing was attributed to Cornelis van Haarlem and catalogued as such in the 1976-77 exhibition. However, in his catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings, prints and drawings, Pieter van Thiel rejected the attribution to van Haarlem and suggested that the drawing was possibly, but not necessarily, made by another artist from the Haarlem School, circa 1600 (van Thiel, op. cit., p. 492). A similar composition portraying the same man, according to van Thiel, by the same hand is in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. K 119; E.K.J. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, Utrecht, 1961, p. 486).

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