Lot 344: A soldier with three young women carrying armour

Jan Erasmus Quellinus (Antwerp 1634-1715 Mechelen)
A soldier with three young women carrying armour
with inscription 'D N I.E.Q v 15 ... /1672'
black chalk, brush and two shades of grey ink, heightened with white, pen and brown ink framing lines
8 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (214 x 251 mm.)

Comparable to drawings by Jan Erasmus Quellinus formerly in the Weld-Blundell Collection, now at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (X. Brooke, Mantegna to Rubens, the Weld-Blundell drawings collection , London, 1998, p. 132, nos. 72 and 73). Also known as Jan Seederboom, Jan Erasmus Quellinus was the son of the Flemish painter Erasmus Quellinus II.