Study of a Seated Peasant
Cornelis Dusart Dutch
Not on view
Dusart was a devoted pupil of the popular and prolific genre painter Adriaen van Ostade. Like his master, Dusart spent his entire career in Haarlem and specialized in scenes of peasant life. His drawings in black and red chalk of single figures playing a musical instrument, reading, smoking, or sleeping are among his finest, and they were highly esteemed and valued by art lovers of his time. Nevertheless, his authorship of the present sheet was somehow forgotten along the line; a later owner wrote "Sachteleven" in the lower left corner, apparently assuming the drawing was by the Utrecht artist Cornelis. (Michiel Plomp)
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