Live Auction 3052The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part II. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500-1900
Govert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam)
Lot 166

Govert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam)

A reclining female nude

Closed10 December 2014

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EUR 73,500

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Govert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam)
A reclining female nude
black and white chalk on buff paper, indistinct watermark
9¾ x 13½ in. (24.6 x 34 cm.)

with J. Peters, The Hague; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 10 November 1930 for 2.50 guilders (Inventory book: '1028. t. Backer naaktstudie').

Specialist note

Von Moltke and Sumowski both note that the same model appears in the drawing of A nude woman seated at the Courtauld Institute, London (Sumowski 942x). Sumowski dated this drawing to the mid 1640s.