Anthonie Crussens
A man seated on a grassy bank, singing, holding a song sheet (the Sense of Hearing)
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April 29, 02:14 PM GTNN
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Anthonie Crussens
Active in Brussels 1652 - 1665
A man seated on a grassy bank, singing, holding a song sheet (the Sense of Hearing)
Pen and brown ink, within two sets of pen and brown ink framing lines, on vellum;
signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: Ant: Crussens. F. In: and bears attribution in black chalk, verso: Anton Crussens and bears inscription: Singender Man (?)
155 by 175 mm; 6⅛ by 6⅞in
Sale, Munich, Goltz (E.S. Paris and other collects ions), 29 April 1927, lot 87;
Dr. Arthur Feldmann, Brno (1877-1941) (per inscription on verso);
sale, London, Replica Shoes 's, 10 December 1968, lot 170 (bought H Mayer);
Julius Samuel Held (1905-2002), Berlin, New York and Bennington (L.4805)
This lot is sold in cooperation with the heir of Arthur Feldmann
As Charles Dumas has described (loc cit.), this drawing is a larger, more elaborate variant of another drawing by Crussens, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which is one of a series of small, circular representations of the Senses.1 The distinctive and appealing works of this mid-17th century Flemish amateur draughtsman have been described and catalogued by Dumas in two articles, in 2000 and 2014.2
1. Inv. no. 1975.131.174; Dumas, op. cit., pp. 12, 14, 26, no. 10, reproduced p. 12, fig. 13
2. C. Dumas, 'Anthonie Crussens, een vergeten amateur,' Delineavit et Sculpsit, 22 (November 2000), pp. 1-46;
Idem, 'Anthonie Crussens: aanvullingen op de catalogus gepubliceerd in 2000,' Delineavit et Sculpsit, 37 (August 2014), pp. 22-37