82/6626 Swart van Groningen, Jan (±1500-±1560). (A parade of mammeluks on horseback). Drawing, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white chalk, on blueish paper, 33,9 x 53,9 cm., framed.

- Laid down on later paper, w. a few sm. closed holes; sl. foxed/ duststained,

= Provenance: with an unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt) in centre upper edge; wth the collector's mark of (Emmanuel) Alfred Beurdeley II (1847-1919) (Lugt 421), son of the French antiquary of the same name. Then sold in the auction of his collection at Galerie Georges Petit, on 8-10 june 1920, under lot number 21 (German school, 16th cent.); sold in auction, 25 June 1970, Sotheby's London (lot 241); sold in auction in 1995 at Sothebys Amsterdam; Belgian private collection. Swart made a series of woodcuts showing a part of the parade of Suleiman, the Turkish emperor (Hollstein 8-12), published by Willem Liefrinck as a frieze in 1526. This drawing is the design for the two first sheets (Hollstein 8 and 9). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.