Live auction - Lot 42
[Flemish school]
Head study of Bacchus.
Late 17th c
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Drawing, black and red chalk, 26 x 20 cm, brown laid paper, signed "PST" in pencil at the left (edges show discolouration from old passe-partout, foxing).
Under passe-partout.
Interesting sheet with representation of a male head, probably a study for a Bacchus figure, executed by a talented draughtsman. Previously attributed to Peter Stevens, based upon the monogram.
Prov. Friedrich Gauermann (1807-1867) (coll. stamp, Lugt 1003).