Pieter Jansz. Quast (Amsterdam ca. 1605 - 1647)
A Man wearing a Fur Hat
black chalk on vellum
190 x 140 mm
A. Bruyninckx, Antwerp, 2 November 1864, lot 421 (to Topin);
L. Rouzé-Huet( († circa 1889), Lille, his mark (L.1742) recto;
Maurice Delacre (1862-1938), Gent;
Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 21 June 1949, lot 391;
Anon. sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 22 November 1956, lot 248, illustrated, where presumably acquired by;
Dr.Walter Beck (1895-1960), Berlin (his mark , L.2603b, verso), by descent to;
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck (1930-2010), Augsburg, his mark, not in Lugt, verso, and by descent to the present owner.