Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
A caricature head of a leering man, a recorder tucked into his hat
signed and dated ‘Corn: Dusart. fc. / 1690.’
red and black chalk and watercolour, gum Arabic, within a drawn circle, on vellum
15.5 x 14.4 cm
Provenance:
Jhr. C. Repelaer (1893-1976), London, before 1965.
Saam and Lily Nijstad-Einhorn, The Hague; Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 19 May 2004, lot 80, where acquired by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck (1930-2010), Augsburg, (his mark, not in Lugt), and by descent.
Exhibited:
Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam and Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Kleur en Raffinement, Tekeningen uit de Unicorno collectie, 1994-1995, no. 22a, ill.
Sold to the Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Parijs.
