Study of a Bearded and Turbaned Man Carrying a Chest ca. 1625-30 Pieter Lastman Dutch Not more than twenty surviving drawings are accepted as by the hand of the Amsterdam history painter Pieter Lastman. Eleven of them are figure studies executed in red chalk on orange-toned paper. While a few of these appear to be preliminary studies for specific paintings, others, including the present sheet, may have been produced by Lastman without a singular purpose in mind and served instead as a repertory of figure types, poses, facial expressions, and costumes from which he could cull for any number of picturesa useful resource for an artist inclined to include in his works a preponderance of figures both central and subsidiary to the stories depicted. The bearded and turbaned man in the Museum’s drawing appears precisely in no known painting, but brings to mind similarly muscular figures with heads turned to the left and with bent arms in Lastman’s Sacrifice of Juno of 1630 (Nationalmuseum, St