Lot 661: LOUIS FABRITIUS DUBOURG

LOUIS FABRITIUS DUBOURG AMSTERDAM 1693 - 1775 STUDY OF A SEATED PUTTO Red chalk, within brown ink framing lines; signed with initials in brown ink, verso : LF dB 305 by 235 mm; 12 by 9 1/4 in

A pupil of Jan van Huysum and Bernard Picart, Dubourg was an active member of one of the various drawing academies that flourished in early 18th-century Amsterdam. A number of large-scale red chalk figure drawings by him are known: two examples dated 1723 and 1726, rather in the manner of Picart, are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.υ1

1. Inv nos. RP-T-00-1130 and 1131; see R.J.A. te Rijdt, Nederlandse Figuurstudies 1700-1850, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1994, nos. 30-31.