Study of a Head of a Woman

c. 1650 - c. 1700

Object data

black chalk; framing line in black ink

height 85 mm × width 89 mm

Inscriptions

inscribed on verso: centre, in pencil (with the sheet oriented 90°), fn10 (?)
stamped on verso: lower left, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

Watermark: Countermark IV

Provenance

…; bequeathed by Daniel Franken Dzn (1838-98), Amsterdam and Le Vésinet, to the museum (L. 2228), 1898

Object number: RP-T-1898-A-4028

Credit line: D. Franken Bequest, Le Vésinet

Entry

The quality of the museum's sheet, which was formerly attributed to Cornelis Visscher, is not of the same level as the artist's original drawings.¹

Marleen Ram, 2019

Citation

M. Ram, 2019, 'anonymous, Study of a Head of a Woman, c. 1650 - c. 1700', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.63629

(accessed 10 November 2024 04:23:30).