A sheet of figure studies, with subsidiary studies of a bag and keys

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Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678)
A sheet of figure studies, with subsidiary studies of a bag and keys
pen and brown ink, brown wash, light blue wash (possibly added later), brown ink framing lines
5½ x 6 7/8 in. (14 x 17.4 cm.)

Provenance

Tobias Christ; Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1981, lot 29.
Jacobus A. Klaver (his mark, on the mount, not in Lugt); Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 10 May 1994, lot 4.

Literature

W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1981, V, pp. 2796-97, no. 1263a^x .

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tekeningen van oude Meesters: de verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, 1993, no. 46.

Lot Essay

The belted bag with a key hanging from it appears in another sheet of studies by Hoogstraten (Sumowski, op. cit., pp. 2794-95, no. 1263x ). Sumowski dates the sheet to the end of the 1640s. Hoogstraten spent most of the 1640s in Rembrandt's workshop, before returning to his native Dordrecht by January 1648.

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