Lot 126: ATTRIBUTED TO GERRIT ADRIAENSZ. BERCKHEYDE

HAARLEM 1638 - 1698 A STANDING WOMAN Red chalk 251 by 122 mm

With Brian Koetser Gallery, London, 1971 (exhib. cat., no. 3); sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 21 March 1977, lot 82; sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 10 November 1998, lot 43 (in each case as Cornelis Bega), purchased by the present owner

The recent Bega exhibition1 was very useful in clarifying the artist's drawing style, and in the light of this, the traditional attribution to of the present drawing to Bega cannot be sustained. It is more likely by Gerrit Berckheyde.2 1. Eleganz und raue Sitten - Cornelis Bega (1631/32-1664), Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, and Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, 2012 2. See P. Schatborn, Dutch Figure Drawings from the seventeenth century, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1981-82, pp. 108-9