Study of a seated man looking to the left

Details

Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
Study of a seated man looking to the left
with inscription 'C. DUSART' in black chalk (verso)
black and red chalk on Japanese paper
10 ¾ x 8 in. (27.3 x 20.3 cm.)

Exhibited

New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Odyssey of an Art Collector, 1966, no. 167.

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Lot Essay

This life study of a seated man stands out in the artist's corpus for its unusual balance between finished and unfinished. While the upper part of the figure appears carefully polished with red and black chalks, the lower part was just delicately outlined. A master draftsman, printmaker and painter, Dusart is mostly renowned for his drawings of peasants, often depicted in colored chalks, like the present one.

We are grateful to Susan Anderson for confirming the attribution.

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