Joachim von Sandrart
Frankfurt am Main 1606 – 1688 Nuremberg
The Denial of Peter, 1630s
Black and brown chalks
27.5 x 22 cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, France
Confirmed by Prof. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton, who dates our drawing to the late 1630s (written communication, February 2020), from the artist’s Amsterdam period, where he had moved from Frankfurt in 1636.
Sandrart’s preoccupation with chiaroscuro effects, in particular candle light and shadows, comes to full expression in this interpretation of Peter’s Denial of any association with Christ.