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JAN PHILIPSZ. VAN BOUCKHORST (HAARLEM c.1588-1631)
Two figures in conversation
pen and brown ink, brown wash, fragmentary watermark fleur-de-lys, the upper corners cut
678 x 514 in. (17.5 x 13.3 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 23.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 99.
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This drawing is a characteristic example of the artist’s expressive penwork and compositional style, known from numerous signed drawings (for examples at the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, see M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Artists born between 1580 and 1600, Amsterdam, 1998, I, nos. 32, 33, 38, II, ill.).

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