Pieter Jansz Quast

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Pieter Jansz Quast
1605-1647
The Mocking of the Spaniard
1642
Black chalk with gray wash on parchment.
8 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches (224 x 301 mm)
Partial gift of the Baymeath Art Trust and partial purchase on the Charles Ryskamp Fund.
2015.120
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Signed and dated at lower right, black ink "PQuast 1642" (PQ in monogram).

Provenance: 
Lionel Lucas (L.1733a); Charles Lucas, sale, London, Christie's, 9 December 1949, part of lot 59 (55 gns. to Eisemann); with P&D Colnaghi & Co., London, 1950 (Old Master Drawings, no. 83); sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 18 November 1985, lot 72; sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1992, lot 136.
Associated names: 

Lucas, Lionel, 1822-1982, former owner.
Lucas, Charles, former owner.

Bibliography: 

B.A. Stanton-Hirst, "Pieter Quast and the Theatre," Oud Holland, 96 (1982), p. 232, note 27

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