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A Young Man Seated on a Stool, Seen from Behind

Cornelis Saftleven
1607-1681

A Young Man Seated on a Stool, Seen from Behind

1643
11 5/8 x 7 15/16 inches (295 x 201 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash on paper.
1977.16

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

Notes
Watermark: none.
The same youth occurs in a drawing, dated 1638, in the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (Inv. no. I-414), and in another, dated 1642, in the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (Inv. no. 20.460).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with monogram and dated at lower right, in black chalk, "CSL / 1643"; numbered on the verso, at lower center, in graphite, "XI B14".
Associated names
Rudolf, C. R. (C. Robert), former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 291.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 84, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 268.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department