Lot 30: - Attributed to Pieter Aertsen , Amsterdam 1507/8 - 1575 head of a young woman, looking down Black, white and red chalk, on faded blue paper

Black, white and red chalk, on faded blue paper

measurements note 246 by 180 mm

K.E. Maison;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 16 January 1986, lot 69 (to Dreesmann);
Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann (his inventory number B-118);
his sale, London, Christie's, 11 April 2002, lot 646

Formerly attributed to Leendert van der Cooghen. The drawing is certainly earlier and is strongly reminiscent of Aertsen's facial types, for example Mary in his painting Christ with Martha and Mary, in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.υ1 1. See M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, Leiden 1975, vol. XIII, pl. 153, no. 306