Lot 512: Jacques de Gheyn the Younger Antwerp 1565 - 1629 The Hague , a couple, the woman holding a dog pen and brown ink within a black ink framing line; silhouetted above the figures

pen and brown ink within a black ink framing line; silhouetted above the figures

89 by 67 mm.

N. Dhikheos, his mark (not in Lugt)

Jacques de Gheyn II is best known as a figure draughtsman and print designer, and the author of the famous series of preparatory drawings for the military manual, De Wapenhandelinghe. Like his father, Jacques de Gheyn I, he was trained as a miniature and stained glass painter, but after the capture of Antwerp by Spanish troops in 1585 he moved to the northern Netherlands, first to Utrecht and then to Haarlem, where he studied under Hendrick Goltzius. This study, however, appears to date from a later period. In its freedom of execution, vigorous penmanship, and also the intimacy of the subject, it may be compared to three drawings, all dated very late in de Gheyn's career: the recto of a double-sided sheet of studies in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no. B.388υa), and two drawings illustrating couples in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, and a private collection, New York.υ1 1. See I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn three generations, vols. I-III, The Hague 1983, cat. no. 497, pp. 80-1, cat. no. 588, p. 95 and cat. no. 598, p. 96