Three studies of a soldier walking (recto); Figure studies, an offset (verso)

Details

Attributed to Pieter Jansz. Quast (Amsterdam 1605/06-1647)
Three studies of a soldier walking (recto); Figure studies, an offset (verso)
with inscription 'G. Terborch' (on the mount), and with inscription 'berg [?]' (verso)
black chalk (recto), a black chalk offset (verso), black ink framing lines
14.8 x 19.4 cm.

Provenance

Jan Veth (according to a note in the collection files).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

A comparable drawing, showing a man seated smoking a pipe and described as 'Manner of Pieter Quast', is in the Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig (inv. Z 2561). Peter Schatborn has suggested that both drawings could be rare examples of studies from life by Quast.

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