Live auction - Lot 21
[Dutch school - Drawing]
[The Widow's Mite].
€ 600 / 700
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Lot description
Black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, 18 x 31,4 cm, watermark: foolscap with collar and three balls (small lack of paper at upper left corner).
Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout (unidentified collector's mark on reverse).
Rembrandtesque chiaroscuro drawing of Christ teaching the lesson of the Widow's Mite (Luke 21: 1-4) at the Temple. Constantijn Daniel van Renesse (1626-1680).