Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
After Willem Drost
Lot 55

After Willem Drost

Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert

Closed3 July 2012

Price Realised

GBP 3,750

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After Willem Drost
Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert
graphite, pen and brown ink, watermark Strasburg Lily with letters WR
6½ x 9 5/8 in. (16.5 x 24.5 cm.)

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

A copy after a drawing by Drost in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (inv. 1120; W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1981, vol. III, no. 551).