Standing Cavalier Wearing a Sword

c. 1615

Willem Buytewech

Artist, Dutch, 1591/1592 - 1624

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of black chalk and graphite

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 20 x 9.9 cm (7 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1981.44.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 5/9/1981, no. 21); acquired by (David Tunich Inc) for the NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

Bibliography

1959

  • Havercamp Begemann, Egbert. Willem Buytewech . Amsterdam, 1959: 62.

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: buitewech; across bottom verso in graphite: Uytenwek / 110 Stackes Licitat / fwf

Wikidata ID

Q64636025

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