Sleeping Boy Sitting in a Chair

Sleeping Boy Sitting in a Chair

RP-T-1899-A-4305

draftsman (artist): Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (signed by artist)

1653 - 1659

black chalk, with grey wash, some graphite; framing line in black chalk

height 215 mm x width 171 mm

purchase 1899-12

Public domain

…; collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98), Amsterdam (L. 3002-4); his sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.) 3 March 1800 sqq., Album SS, no. 27 (‘Een Jongman zittende te slaapen, op een stoel; met zwart kryt en O. I. Inkt’), together with nos. 26 and 28, fl. 5:50, to ‘Andriessen’;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869), Rotterdam;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} his sale, Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme and A.C. van Wijngaarden), 23 October 1871 sqq., no. 181, fl. 1, to Baron Willem Constant Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn (1812-74), Utrecht;{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 27 October 1874 sqq., no. 241, fl. 8:90, to the dealer V. van Gogh (1866-1911) (dealer), Amsterdam and Paris;{Copy RKD.} …; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 207, fl. 40, to the dealer C.F. Roos Jr for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD; note RMA.} from whom, fl. 46, to the museum (L. 2228), 1899

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