Cornelis Pietersz Bega, um 1620/32 Haarlem – 1664 ebenda, zugeschrieben/ Nachfolge des

CARESS OF THE YOUNG LANDLADY Red chalk drawing. 18 x 16 cm. Inscribed "als Cornelis Bega, Eleve des van Ostade" verso lower. Small blue collection stamp with eagle lower right. Framed behind glass in passepartout. Provenance: According to the collection stamp (Lugt number L.1131) from the collection of Amédée-Paul-Emile Gasc (1817-1866), whose collection of old drawings with works from the Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French and Spanish schools of the 15th-18th centuries was auctioned in Paris in 1861-1863. A further group of drawings went to the Musée d'Orléans in 1858. Literature on the collector: Cf. Léonce Both de Tauzia, Musées nationaux. Notice des dessins de la collection His de La Salle exposés au Louvre, Paris 1881, pp. 192-205, Appendix. Marques des principales collections de dessins, p. 196 (as Charles Gasc). Cf. Louis Fagan, Collectors' Marks, London 1883, no. 213 (as Charles Gasc). Cf. Laurence Lhinares, Jacques Édouard Gatteaux. Un don sauvé des flammes', Grande Galerie, 2013, no. 25, pp. 76-77. Cf. Laurence Lhinares, The Brothers Paul-Émile and Charles Gasc as Collectors of Drawings, Master Drawings, LII, 2014, 1, pp. 95-110. (13905816) (18)