Half-length Boy Hunting Fleas

Half-length Boy Hunting Fleas

RP-T-1948-411

draftsman (artist): Cornelis Saftleven

1626

charcoal soaked in linseed oil, with white chalk, over traces of graphite, on brown (toned?) paper; framing line in dark brown ink

height 394 mm x width 312 mm

purchase 1948

Public domain

...; collection Nathaniel Hone (1718-84), London (L. 2793); ? his sale, London (Hutchins), 7 February 1785 _sqq_; …; collection Charles Rogers (1711-84), London (L. 624); his sale, London (T. Philipe), 15 April 1799 _sqq_., one of two in no. 586 (‘Two boys heads, size of life –oiled black chalk- dated, 1626’);{Copy RKD.} collection Freiherr Adalbert von Lanna, (1836-1909), Prague (L. 2773); his sale, Berlin (Lepke), 22 May 1911, no. 135;{Hofstede de Groot notes, RKD, no. 0000898953.} …; collection Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853-1938); by descent to Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906-89), Vaduz; from whom, fl. 1200, through the mediation of the dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt (Zürich), to the museum (L. 2228), 1948

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