Cornelis Saftleven (Gorcum 1607-1681 Rotterdam)
A man asleep, seated at a table
signed with monogram and dated ‘CS /1658’
oiled (?) black chalk, on brown prepared paper, heightened with white, watermark foolscap, black chalk framing lines
23.5 x 20.5 cm
Provenance:
A.N. Alferoff, (1811-1872), Bonn (without his mark, L. 1727), ‘Katalog V’, 6l; bequeathed to the University of Charkow in
1873, handed over to the Art Historical Museum in Charkow.
The State Museum the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, their mark (L. 5185) (verso);
C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 29 April 1931, lot 215 (to Holtkott),
Walter Holtkott (1916-1996), Bedburg.
With David Lachenmann, Munich, circa 1990.
With Katrin Bellinger, Munich, (exhib. cat., Harari & Johns, London, 1990, no. 25).
With R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara/Otto Naumann, New York, 1995, from whom acquired by
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck (1930-2010), Augsburg (his mark, not in Lugt) and by descent.
Literature:
W. Schulz, Cornelis Saftleven 1607-1681: Leben und Werke, mit einem kritischen Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Berlin, 1978, pp. 105-6, no. 162.
