The 50 plates / Plate 11 of 50
Plate 11 of 50
Half-Length Figures of Two Young Men
Halbfiguren zweier junger Männer
Follower of Anthony van Dyck
Not yet located
The drawing
Rapidly drawn study of two young men shown closely together at half length, with additional lightly sketched figures behind them. The foremost man holds an object or bundle across his body.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Follower of Anthony van Dyck
- Title as printed
- Halbfiguren zweier junger Männer
- Title in English
- Half-Length Figures of Two Young Men
- Medium and size
- Black chalk on rough gray paper, 20.5 × 20.5 cm
- Inscription
- Unsigned
- Collection in 1922
- Limburger collection, Leipzig
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- No later attribution securely connected to Becker’s drawing has been located. Becker already catalogued it cautiously as the work of a follower rather than Van Dyck himself. Modern searches produce several Van Dyck and Van Dyck-style double portraits of young men, but none can be identified with this particular sheet.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 11.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.