Study of an Oriental man with a pipe.

Drawing, watercolour with traces of graphite, 20,5 x 15 cm, laid paper with Dutch watermark (sl. browned).

Under passe-partout.

Nice portrait of an Oriental man, a genre practised by Willem II Linnig (1842-1890) during the 1880s, in the wake of a general interest in Chinoiserie and Japanese art during the "Belle-Époque".
Joined: 1. Dumont, F. - The drunkard and his angry wife. 1856. Watercolour, 12,5 x 19,3 cm, laid paper. Attributed in graphite by later hand. 2-3. Anonymous. Two study sheets of young man with a hat. Graphite and watercolour, 21,5 x 11,5, laid paper. (4 pcs)