Herman Saftleven (Rotterdam 1609-1685 Utrecht)

A peasant woman carrying a basket on her head

Details

Herman Saftleven (Rotterdam 1609-1685 Utrecht)
A peasant woman carrying a basket on her head
signed with monogram
black chalk, watercolour, pen and brown ink framing lines, executed on the back of a playing card (the ten of diamonds)
3¼ x 2 1/8 in. (8.2 x 5.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 13 November 1924, part of lot 415a.
with Kunsthandel Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1948, number unknown.
Private Collection, Estoril.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 4 November 2003, lot 69.

Literature

W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven 1609-1685, Berlin, 1982, no. 1319.

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Lot Essay

One of a group of drawings executed by Saftleven on the backs of playing cards. All similar in size and format, these rare drawings may originally have been intended to make up a pack of cards, although now only around twenty are known. Other examples in the series are listed in W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven 1609-1685, Berlin, 1982, nos. 1315-1327.

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