Lot 45: ATTRIBUTED TO DANIËL MIJTENS THE YOUNGER THE HAGUE 1644 - 1688

signed (?) in black chalk, lower centre: Mijtens

red chalk, heightened with white chalk, over traces of black chalk, on paper washed light reddish-brown

380 by 492mm

Delft, Technische Hogeschool, Gebouw voor Decoratieve Kunst, Een Keuze uit de Tekeningen-Collectie van De Heer W.B. Wouters, 1962, cat. no. 10 (as Rubens)

De verzameling van mr. Carel Vosmaer, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, 1989, p. 95, under cat. no. 53

W.B. Wouters, Delft

Another male nude study by the same hand, and bearing the same signature or early attribution, is in the Vosmaer Collection at the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (see Literature). That drawing was attributed by Marijn Schapelhouman to Daniël Mijtens the Younger, rather than any of the other artists with the same surname, on the basis that there are strong stylistic similarities with drawings by Willem Doudijns and Theodorus van der Scheur, together with whom Daniel Mijtens visited Italy, and also founded the Hague drawing academy, Pictura, in 1682.