ATTRIBUTED TO CORNELIS SCHUT (ANTWERP 1597 - 1655)
The Lamentation
black chalk with pen and brown ink heightening on paper, indented
85 x 245 mm (3 1/3 x 9 1/2 in)

Bears inscription in pen and ink d'Ant Vandyck on the verso

The present work derives from Van Dyck’s Pietà and is most likely in preparation for a print.

Schut was primarily a painter and an etcher. He trained in Rubens's school and was considered one of his master's best pupils. Van Dyck painted his portrait and kept it in his private collection of the artists he considered most celebrated.

PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, London;
Kate Ganz Ltd., London

EXHIBITED:
Kate Ganz Limited, Old Master Drawings, Summer 1984, London, vol. 4, no 28 (ill.)