96 Seated Man
Pen and brown ink and graphite; H: 15.4 cm (6 Vie in.);
W: 17.5 cm(6I5/i6in.)
8s.GA.382
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: Inscribed swardte mus,
swartte rock, witte doeckker, nar hedt leuen in pen and brown
ink and graphite by Savery.
PROVENANCE: Adolf Friedrich Albert Reinicke; by de-
scent to Martin Reinicke, Darmstadt (sale, Sotheby's,
Amsterdam, November 15, 1983, lot 144).
EXHIBITIONS: Pieter Bruegel d. A. als Zeichner, Kupfer-
stichkabinett, Berlin, September-November 1975, no.
238 (catalogue by F. Anzelewsky et al.); The Age of Brue-
gel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, Na-
tional Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Pierpont
Morgan Library, New York, November 1986-January
1987 and January-April 1987, no. 102 (catalogue by J. O.
Handetal.).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Spicer-Durham, "The Drawings of
Roelandt Savery," unpub. Ph.D. diss., Yale University,
1979 , vol. 2, p. 661, no. c 227.
THIS IS PART OF THE SAME SERIES OF DRAWINGS BY
Savery as the Seated Woman (see previous entry). It has
been dated later in the sequence by Spicer (1979, vol. i,
p. 221), who has noted that it and drawings related to it
show an increased interest in volume and in the expres-
sive potential of line. She has pointed out that the later
naer het leven drawings are characterized by the use of a
system of cross-hatching with short, hooked strokes of
the pen. The relative chronology proposed by her ap-
pears convincing and would account for graphic differ-
ences between this drawing and the Seated Woman. Spicer
has dated the Seated Man to the period between 1606 and
1608/0 9 and has related it to other drawings from the se-
ries in a private collection, Darmstadt (Anzelewsky et al.
1975, figs. 271, 274).2l8 FLEMISH SCHOOL • SAVERY