Lot 35: JAN DE BRAY HAARLEM CIRCA 1627 - 1697

A STANDING BEARDED MAN, PULLING A CORD

measurements note
406 by 287mm

bears attribution, lower right: de Bray
red chalk heightened with white chalk, on buff paper

PROVENANCE

Karl Eduard von Liphart (L.1687);
by inheritance to his grandson, Freiherr Reinhold von Liphart (L.1758);
purchased by Michael Ingram from Alister Mathews, 1958;
bears unidentified collector's mark, verso (not in Lugt)

EXHIBITED

Winchester College, 1963

NOTE

A number of compositional studies by De Bray are known, but individual figure studies such as this are rare. A black chalk study of a young man, dated 1662, is in Leipzig (Museum der bildenden Künste, inv.nr. 403; see J.W. von Moltke, 'Jan de Bray', Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11/12 (1938/39), no. Z 108).