red chalk, watermark foolscap with seven bells above the letters ID
160 x 142 mm.
Provenance
William Mayor (d. 1874), his stamp lower left (L. 2799); inscribed in ink on the verso lower left: ‘WM 1842’ (L. 2639); Lansing W. Thoms Collection, St. Louis, Missouri; By descent to a private collection Missouri, until 2003
Literature
Baukje J. L. Coenen, ‘The drawings of the Haarlem Amateur Leendert van der Cooghen’, Master Drawings, vol XLII, no. I, 2005, C14, p. 71
An attribution to Leendert van der Cooghen has been suggested. However, Baukje Coenen has examined the drawing and considers it closer to Cornelis Visscher. It is closely comparable to two drawings by that artist in the musée du Louvre (see Frits Lugt, ‘Inventaire General des Dessins des Écoles du Nord, École Hollandaise’, no. 867 and 870).
