Lot 127: Attributed to Jürgen Ovens , Tönning, Schleswig-Holstein 1623 - 1678 Friedrichstadt the prodigal son feeding his pigs Pen and brown ink, within brown ink framing lines; bears indistinct attribution on the verso : VAN DER BANK and several numbers in

Pen and brown ink, within brown ink framing lines; bears indistinct attribution on the verso : VAN DER BANK and several numbers in different, quite modern hands

measurements note 156 by 204 mm

Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 26 November 1984, lot 128 (as Rembrandt School, circa 1660)

The free, rather angular treatment of the figure and the sketchy indication of the background are characteristic of other drawings by Ovens, see for example, the Portrait of a Married Couple (Bremen, Kunsthalle) and the Virgin and Child with St. Catherine and the Infant Baptist (Copenhagen, Den Kgl. Kobberstiksamling).υ1 Houbraken reports that Ovens studied with Rembrandt, probably in the 1630s, but he returned to his own country in 1651 and worked primarily for the Court of Holstein. 1. Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 9, New York 1985, p. 4596, no. 2046 and p.4712, no. 2103υx