Attributed to Cornelis Saftleven

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Attributed to Cornelis Saftleven
1607-1681
Suspended Dead Partridge
Black chalk, brown, gray, red, and yellow wash, on paper tinted very pale green; framing line in dark brown ink.
16 7/16 x 13 1/4 inches (418 x 338 mm)
Purchased on the E.J. Rousuck Fund.
1981.77
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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Provenance: 
Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 16 November 1981, lot 101, repr.
Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 297.

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