Lot 60: *Anthonis Sallaert (1580/90-1650)

*Anthonis Sallaert (1580/90-1650)
a standing man holding a plumed hat and a staff.
Bears attribution to Rubens and long inscription in German, in black chalk, verso.
Black chalk.
193 by 100mm.
Provenance:
W.G. Becker (L.324).
This drawing is clearly by the same hand as a study of a seated trumpeter, in the Lugt Collection (Paris, Institut Neerlandais; see Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from the Frits Lugt Collection, exh.cat., London, Victoria & Albert Museum, et al., 1972, cat.87, pl.81). The basis for Lugt's attribution of his drawing to Sallaert was a comparison with the figures in two large paintings by the artist, in the Brussels Museum, which represent episodes in the life of the Archducal couple, Albert and Isabella. Other very similar figure studies by Sallaert are in the Bibliotheque Royale Albert I, Brussels, and the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam.