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1672/88

Daniël Mijtens, the Younger
Dutch, 1644-1688

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Artist: Daniel Mytens, the elder
Title: Male Nude Seen from Behind
Origin: Netherlands
Date: 1672–1688
Medium: Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, with traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower center: "Mijtens" [or Meytens]; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "–/T"; lower right, in graphite: "1169"; center, in graphite: "D. Mijtens"
Dimensions: 380 × 492 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.854

Frédéric Louis Bastet, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, De verzameling van Mr. Carel Vosmaer (Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet, 1989), p. 95, under no. 53.

Delft, Technische Hogeschool, Gebouw voor Decoratieve Kunst, Een Keuze uit de Tekeningen-Collectie van De Heer W.B. Wouters, 1962, no. 10 (as Rubens).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 117, 120 (ill.), 306, 333, cat. 37, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

W.B. Wouters, Delft. Sold, Sotheby’s Amsterdam, Nov. 2, 2004, lot 45. Paul Russell, Amsterdam; sold through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary Gray, Chicago, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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