Attributed to Cornelis Troost (1697-1750). Design for a sculpted bust of a man with plumed hat, red chalk on laid paper, with partial watermark, sheet size 187 x 155 mm (7.4 x 6.1 ins), hinge mounted on later blue paper and backing card (inscribed in pencil in a later hand 'Cornelis Troost +1750', together with other various drawings, mostly 17th and 18th century Dutch and Flemish, including an 18th century coastal scene depicting a Dutch man-of war outside the harbour at Amsterdam in pen ink and wash, heightened with touches of watercolour and white bodycolour (browned), 116 x 200 mm, a 17th century design for an ornamental escutcheon, in pen, brown ink and grey wash on laid paper, 157 x 212 mm, eight early 18th century small pen brown ink and grey wash scenes (including a public hanging, a wedding ceremony, and four of street actors and performers), on laid paper, 95 x 80 mm and slightly smaller, and an early 18th century pen and brown ink study of three standing figures, on laid paper, watermarked, browned to edges, 202 x 155 mm (Qty: 13) Provenance: Private Collection, Herefordshire, England.
Attributed to Cornelis Troost (1697-1750). Design for a sculpted bust of a man with plumed hat, red chalk on laid paper, with partial watermark, sheet size 187 x 155 mm (7.4 x 6.1 ins), hinge mounted on later blue paper and backing card (inscribed in pencil in a later hand 'Cornelis Troost +1750', together with other various drawings, mostly 17th and 18th century Dutch and Flemish, including an 18th century coastal scene depicting a Dutch man-of war outside the harbour at Amsterdam in pen ink and wash, heightened with touches of watercolour and white bodycolour (browned), 116 x 200 mm, a 17th century design for an ornamental escutcheon, in pen, brown ink and grey wash on laid paper, 157 x 212 mm, eight early 18th century small pen brown ink and grey wash scenes (including a public hanging, a wedding ceremony, and four of street actors and performers), on laid paper, 95 x 80 mm and slightly smaller, and an early 18th century pen and brown ink study of three standing figures, on laid paper, watermarked, browned to edges, 202 x 155 mm (Qty: 13) Provenance: Private Collection, Herefordshire, England.
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