The 50 plates / Plate 24 of 50
Plate 24 of 50
Cavalier
Kavalier
Willem Buytewech
Not yet located
The drawing
A full-length study of a fashionable young gentleman standing in a broad-brimmed hat, sweeping cloak, richly gathered breeches, fitted stockings, and elaborate rosette shoes, his head turned toward the viewer.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Willem Pietersz. Buytewech
- Title as printed
- Kavalier
- Title in English
- Cavalier
- Medium and size
- Black chalk, stumped, 40 × 24 cm
- Inscription
- Monogrammed WB
- Collection in 1922
- Ducal collection, Dessau (no. 4099)
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
- Willem Buytewech, as attributed by Becker. The reproduction bears a prominent “WB” monogram at lower left.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 24.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.