Attributed to Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
Lot 80 FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Attributed to Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)

A woman holding her child, seen from the back

Closed7 December 2016

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GBP 1,500

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Attributed to Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
A woman holding her child, seen from the back
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, brown ink framing lines
4 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (11.2 x 6 cm.)

Count Rey de Villette (L. 2200a); Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, 4-6 May 1931, lot 1146 (as Adriaen van Ostade).
B. Himmelheber (L. 4035), and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

According to Dr. Bernard Schnackenburg, to whom we are grateful, this chalk drawing is probably by either Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) or Isaac van Ostade (1621-1649) and worked up in pen and ink by Cornelis Dusart.