Hendrik de Keyser
1565-1621
Self-Portrait (?) in a Hat, Seen Bust-length in Profile to the Left
4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (116 x 85 mm), oval
Pen and brown ink, on paper; double framing line in brown ink (a thin line inscribed by the artist in the same ink as the drawing, inside a thicker dark brown line).
2001.17
Purchased on the Frits Markus Fund.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with the monogram, at lower center, in brown ink, "HDK" (in ligature). Inscribed on the verso, in brown ink: at upper center, in the hand of Ploos van Amstel, "de Key̆ser beeldhouwer"; and at lower left center, "No.[o in superscript] 266". On the verso of the old lining (now removed), at lower left, in the hand of Goll van Franckenstein, in brown ink, "N 3872."; and below this, also in brown ink, "vro(?)".
Associated names
Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis, 1726-1798, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Johan, 1756-1821, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Mensing, Ant. W. M., 1866-1936, former owner.
Larsen, H. L., former owner.
Larsen-Menzl, Suzanne, former owner.
Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Johan, 1756-1821, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Mensing, Ant. W. M., 1866-1936, former owner.
Larsen, H. L., former owner.
Larsen-Menzl, Suzanne, former owner.
Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980, former owner.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 110.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
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