Study of a young man with a cap in three-quarter profile, monogrammed LVC, black and red chalk, on laid paper, 14,5 x 14,5 cm, mounted, unframed, (Sch)

Provenance: Vincent van Gogh, Auction, Amsterdam, de Vries, 2nd Dezember 1913, Lot 207; Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot (L. 561), Auction Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 4th November 1931, Lot 44; Auction Munich, Karl Faber, 29th November 1962, Lot 84 (each as Leendert van der Cooghen).

Exhibited: Leiden, Stedelijk Museum "De Lakenhat, Tentoonstelling van Teekeningen van Oud-Hollandsche Meesters uit de Verzameling van Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot, part I, 1916, cat. 38 (as van der Cooghen).

Literature: O. Hirschmann, "Die Handzeichnungen-Sammlung D. Hofstede de Groot im Haag", in: Cicerone, VIII, 1916, p. 400; W. Wegner, Die Niederländischen Handzeichnungen des 15.-18. century, 2 Vols., Munich (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung), 1973, p. 72, Cat. 504; B. Coenen, Leendert van der Cooghen, thesis, Amsterdam, 1996, cat. T. C.24 (not ascribed to van der Cooghen).

The present drawing shows the same figure, however from a different point of view, as it appears in a red chalk drawing by Dirk Helmbreker in the British Museum (Inv.1895.9.15.1177; Compare A. M. Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists in the British Museum, Bd. III, London 1926m p. 112, No.1). Both drawings could have been executed at the same occasion. However, there is no hint that the represented figures are identical with the artist Dirk Helmbreker as was assumed for a long time.