Resting man, smoking a pipe

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Literatur:
Jeroen Giltaij, Ausst.-Kat. Le Cabinet d’un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d’une collection privée d’Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, und Brüssel, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, 1976/77, Kat.-Nr. 47, Tafel 92.

Provenienz:
Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891), Dorpat, Bonn und Florenz, verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 1687);
im Erbgang an seinen Enkel Freiherr Reinhold von Liphart (2. Hälfte 19. Jh.), “Ratshof” bei Dorpat, verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 1758);
dessen Auktion bei C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, Auktion, 26.4.1898, Los 296;
Hertzberger, Amsterdam, Auktion, 23.5.1940, Los 64, mit Abb.;
Jan Frederik Bianchi (1878-1963), Amsterdam, verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 3761);
dessen Auktion bei Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, Auktion, 23.-27.11.1964, Los 167;
Iohan Quirijn van Regteren Altena (1899-1980), Amsterdam, verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 4617);
Christie’s, Amsterdam, Auktion “The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection, Part IV: Dutch & Flemish Drawings from 1500 to 1900, 13.5.2015, Los 219;
Privatsammlung, München, in obiger Auktion erworben.

Description

Dusart was influenced by his teacher Adriaen van Ostade and later by Jan Steen, whose more comedic style he adopted. Dusart probably inherited Ostade’s entire workshop estate, completed the stored paintings and added artistic washes to some of his drawings to make them more attractive for sale. Dusart’s figure drawings, including the present study of a resting, puffing man on blue-ground paper “aux deux crayons”, can be regarded as works of art in their own right. According to a notebook by Dusart, these partly pictorial and often coloured drawings were sold separately to collectors (see Peter Schatborn: Dutch Figure Drawings from the seventeenth century, exhib. cat. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1981-82, pp. 110-112). With white laid paper strips along the margins verso. – Barely noticeable brown stains. Verso in upper corners with adhesive residue from former mounting, this faintly showing through to recto. In good condition.