All works in (under construction) Drawings 2

Cornelis Saftleven

Seated Woman, Turned Three Quarters to her Left

1634

Object data

black chalk; framing line in brown ink

height 288 mm × width 191 mm

Inscriptions

  • monogrammed and dated: lower right (near the chair leg), in black chalk, CSL / 1634

  • stamped on verso: lower centre, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

watermark: none

Provenance

…; collection Carel Vosmaer (1826-88), The Hague;1 his son, Prof. Dr Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer (1854-1916), Leiden; his son, C.J.J.G. Vosmaer (1907-86), Leiden; his heirs; from whom, fl. 650,000, with 212 other drawings, to the museum (L. 2228), with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum Stichting and the De Ster Holding BV, 1989

Object number: RP-T-1989-100

Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum Stichting and the De Ster Holding BV

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Saftleven put a lot of attention to the richly ornamented dress with its tassels and grand draperies. Compared to other early drawings by Saftleven, the lines in the present sheet are sketchier and have richer contrast.2 This unidentified woman is clearly someone of stature, her expression unrevealing of her thoughts.

Carolyn Mensing, 2020

Literature

J.F. Heijbroek (ed.), De verzameling van mr. Carel Vosmaer (1826-1888), exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksprentenkabinet) 1989, no. 19 (ill.)

Citation

C. Mensing, 2020, 'Cornelis Saftleven, _, 1634', in J. Turner (ed.), _(under construction) Drawings 2, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200143932

(accessed 13 December 2025 01:45:13).

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