Lot 152: Karel van Mander (1548-1606)

A group of four nude women holding two baskets of flowers signed '.KvM.' and with inscription 'JJ Ken fing f 7800k' ( verso ) black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, in an 18th Century frame 172 x 161 mm. PROVENANCE An unidentified collector's paraph 'AVB' below a cross. NOTES Close in handling to a group of drawings in the Albertina, Vienna (O. Benesch, Die Zeichnungen der Niederl„ndischen Schulen des XV. und XV. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1928, nos. 360-5) and to another, also signed, in the Louvre (F. Lugt, MaŒtres des anciens Pays-Bas n‚s avant 1550, Paris, 1968, no. 720).