Attributed to Anselmus de Boodt

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Attributed to Anselmus de Boodt
1550-1632
Bear
ca. 1600
Watercolor and opaque watercolor over graphite.
9 15/16 x 13 1/8 inches (257 x 333 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.13
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Inscribed in brown ink, at upper left, ourse, at lower left, Sniders fecit.
Watermark: Shield, centered on chain line. Poor quality beta.

Provenance: 
Sir Robert Henry Edward Abdy (1896-1976), fifth Baronet Abdy of Essex, Newton Ferrers, near Callington, Cornwall; sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1985, lot 158 (as "German [?] School, 17th Century"), repr.; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London (as Anselmus de Boodt); Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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Associated names: 

Verhagen der Stomme, Hans, ca. 1540/45-1600, After.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 18, repr.
The Thaw collection of master drawings : acquisitions since 2002. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, no. 7, repr.

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