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Lot description
Fragments of the signature at the bottom left of the pedestal One hundred and thirty-six years after it was sold at auction by J. M. Heberle (H. Lempertz' Söhne), this painting by Leonaert Bramer returns to Cologne. The depiction of an Oriental scholar is something of an exception within Bramer's work: whereas his paintings are generally characterised by a dark palette dominated by grey and brown, dramatic lighting effects, and a rapid, nervous brushstroke, here he adopts a markedly more precise draughtsmanship and a considerably more vivid colour scheme, with the scholar's red mantle, the blue drapery on the wall, and the green tablecloth. Wichmann's catalogue raisonné records a signature, which today is only faintly legible. In the auction catalogue of 1934 it is transcribed as "L. Bramer P anno 1656."