Lot 124: ATTRIBUTED TO JAN PYNAS

ATTRIBUTED TO JAN PYNAS HAARLEM 1582 - 1631 AMSTERDAM SAINT BRUNO PRAYING IN THE DESERT Pen and brown and grey ink and brown wash, heightened with white, within black ink framing lines; inscribed, centre right: S t bruno ; bears old attribution to Subleyras and numbering on fragment of old mount : P. Subleirase. N o 7 258 by 194 mm

Alfred Normand (L.153c)

Saint Bruno was the founder of the Order of Carthusians. He is depicted praying in the desert, at the site of the future Grande Chartreuse monastery.