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Lot 61: Cornelis Schut III (Antwerp circa 1629-1685 Seville)

Est: £600 GBP - £800 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomDecember 05, 2006

Item Overview

Description

A pilgrim wearing the badge of Santiago de Campostella
with inscription 'AO AC o' (recto) and 'Originale di Alonso Cno 10/6' on the mount.
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (166 x 108 mm.)

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 29 November 1950, part of lot 13 (20s. to Oppé).

Notes

Cornelis Schut III was born in Flanders but travelled to Spain with his father who was a military engineer in the service of King Philip IV of Spain. He was probably trained by his uncle Cornelis Schut I in their native Antwerp, but his draughtsmanship betrays the strong influence of Spanish artists such as Murillo, with whom he is often confused. On arriving in Seville he set about becoming a central member of the artistic community, as on the founding members of the Academy of Seville in 1660 and serving as its president from 1670-74.

Comparable drawings by Schut are in the Prado (A.E. Perez Sanchez, Museo del Prado, Dibujos Espanoles, Siglos XV-XVII, I, Madrid, 1972, pp. 131-132, nos. F.A. 93 and F.A. 94) and in the Louvre (A.E. Perez Sanchez and L. Boubli, Dessins Espagnols, Maîtres des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Paris, 1991, no. 98).

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Auction Details

Master Drawings from the Oppé Collection

by
Christie's
December 05, 2006, 12:00 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK