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ANONYMOUS DUTCH

Sitting peasant
17th century
€140 - €200

Pen and brown ink, laid paper (no visible watermark), 90 x 64 mm, trimmed on all sides, uneven tear along right edge. Hinged under passe-partout at upper edge. Unsigned

Rendered in a self-assured manner, this small sheet represents a peasant in early 17th-century attire. Dept to the composition is given my minute but precise addition of cross-hatching in the shadows. The sitting figures position are reminders of similar compositional tropes of the circle of Abraham Bloemaert; particularly his study sheets of pastoral scenes with peasants and farmers. The drawing was probably part of a larger sheet