Study of a Seated Peasant Cornelis Dusart Dutch 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, appa
Study of a Seated Peasant Cornelis Dusart Dutch 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). Study of a Seated Peasant. Cornelis Dusart (Dutch, Haarlem 1660–1704 Haarlem). Black and red chalk on beige paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink. Drawings
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