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Description: Beskrivning i Magnusson, Dutch Drawings nr 33:
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, 294 x 430 mm. Framing lines in brown ink, partly preserved. Upper and lower left corners damaged. The surface is much worn in many places. A vertical fold in the centre and several horizontal folds, particularly in the lower half of the sheet. There are also scattered dark spots. No watermark. Chain lines: 35 mm. Numbered in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 14. Inscribed in Tessin’s hand on the old mount, in pen and brown ink, Lucas de Leiden. Cabinet de Crozat and Ce dessein est du premier ordre pour le temps où / il a été fait.

This drawing reproduces a print by Lucas van Leiden (Bartsch 74). The correspondence in size and details of the individual figures is almost perfect, while small deviations regarding their relative positions sometimes exist, suggesting that partial tracings have been used. There are a very few traces of an underdrawing in graphite, e.g. on the head of the woman with a child in the foreground, and most of it must have been erased. The overall character is one of a neat pen drawing with extensive and very precise brushwork interpreting the nuances of shading in the print. Drawings like this were usually intended to be engraved, but no print by De Bisschop is known. 

The inscription on the mount echoes Mariette’s assessment, appreciating this drawing by a “primitive” master for being highly finished and rich in invention. He wrote (under no. 791): “Six Desseins, dont le Crucifiement, le même que Lucas a gravé. C’est un morceau très-considerable pour son terminé, & pour sa belle ordonnance”. Tessin’s copy of the Crozat catalogue contains an annotation that the lot was bought by d’Argenville, and Tessin must have bought it from him. He kept it until his death, framed.

The attribution was first suggested by Reznicek. It fits well into De Bisschop’s oeuvre, and is a testimony to the continuing interest in the older master. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 33]

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