Lot 126: Attributed to Jacob van Loo , Sluis 1614 - 1670 Paris seated female nude Black and white chalk on blue paper; the top corners cut; bears numbering in brown ink, upper left: N o 35

Black and white chalk on blue paper; the top corners cut; bears numbering in brown ink, upper left: N o 35

measurements note 349 by 237 mm

This fine Rembrandt School drawing belongs to a group of similar figure studies on blue paper, all bear numberings in the form seen here, most but not all of which also depict female nudes. The drawings were traditionally attributed to Govert Flinck,υ1 and while some scholars still retain that attribution for most of the drawings in the group, Peter Schatborn has more recently suggested an alternative attribution to Jacob van Loo, who is recorded as having drawn from a female nude model together with Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol in 1658υ.2 Other names that have also been associated with drawings of this type include Jacob Backer, Jan van Noordt and Abraham van den Tempel. 1. See J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck 1615-1660, Amsterdam 1965, cat. nos. D186-189, D191, D194-195, D200, D204, D209-212, D216, D218-219, and W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 4, New York 1981, cat. no. 946υx 2. See P. Schatborn, Dutch Figure Drawings from the seventeenth century, exh. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1981-2, p. 94υ