DrawingsDutch17th century

A Seated Man in Middle Eastern Costume

c. 1646

Artists

Gerbrand van den EeckhoutArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

23.1 x 13.5 cm (9 1/8 x 5 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Perhaps Alfred Boreel, Amsterdam [1], sold; [Muller, Amsterdam, 15 June 1908, lot 77 (as Rembrandt).] Paul Mathey, Paris, sold; [Hôtel Drouot (Delteil), Paris, 28 November 1924, lot 77, repr. (as attributed to Rembrandt).] [Richard Day, London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1972 (L. 3306, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2009.203 [1]. Although A. Boreel is listed as a consigner at Muller’s sale of 15 June 1908, he is not specified as the seller of our drawing. Sumowski confidently concluded that Boreel owned our drawing, but we prefer instead to qualify his ownership with, “perhaps.”

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