Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht 1616-1680 Amsterdam)
Lot 51

Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht 1616-1680 Amsterdam)

Jacob and Rachel

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 51,650

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Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht 1616-1680 Amsterdam)
Jacob and Rachel
pen and brown ink, brown wash, with corrections in white bodycolour
7 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. (20 x 31.5 cm.)

P. Crozat, with his numbering '148' (L. 3612).
Probably General Auguste-Charles-Joseph de Flahaut de La Billarderie (1785-1870) and his wife Margaret Mercer Elphinstone (1788-1867); and by descent.

Specialist note

Close in style and composition to a drawing by Bol of the same subject in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 9906; W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1979, vol. I, no. 255). The present sheet appears to be a development of the Vienna drawing and can be dated to the same period, in the latter half of the 1640s.

We are grateful to Peter Schatborn for confirming the attribution on examination of the original.