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BERNARD PICART (PARIS 1673-1733 AMSTERDAM)
Lot 88

BERNARD PICART (PARIS 1673-1733 AMSTERDAM)

Study of a nude male

Closed1 February 2024

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BERNARD PICART (PARIS 1673-1733 AMSTERDAM)
Study of a nude male
signed and dated ‘B. Picart le 19. octobre/ 1729.’ (lower left)
red chalk, stumping, red chalk framing lines
20 x 12 ¼ in. (51 x 31 cm)

with Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (according to inscription on the back of the frame).
George R. Brooks; Ivey-Selkirk, Saint Louis, 3 December 2006, lot 935.

Specialist note

At least fifty comparable and similarly signed academies are known by Picart, who was mainly active as a book illustrator (C. Dury in Bernard Picart (1673-1733). Dessinateur de Paris à Amsterdam, exhib. cat., Magny-les-Hameaux, Musée de Port-Royal des Champs, 2019, p. 80). Among these are two drawings of seated men, dated respectively 1720 and November 1723, in the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. III,85e, III,85f), and a third in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-FM-253; see ibid., p. 78, no. VIII, ill.).