The 50 plates / Plate 15 of 50
Plate 15 of 50
Bust of an Old Man
Brustbild eines alten Mannes
Jan Lievens
Not yet located
The drawing
Bust-length study of an elderly man with long curling hair and a heavy moustache, drawn with vigorous cross-hatching and marked with Lievens’s “IL” monogram.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Jan Lievens
- Title as printed
- Brustbild eines alten Mannes
- Title in English
- Bust of an Old Man
- Medium and size
- Pen, ink browned, 27.5 × 21.7 cm
- Inscription
- Monogrammed I. L.
- Collection in 1922
- Geheimrat A. Köster, Leipzig (formerly J. H. Cremer)
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
- Jan Lievens. No later reattribution of Becker’s exact drawing was located.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 15.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.