[Music Iconography, Lute] Quast, Pieter Jansz. (1606 - 1647) Elegant lady playing the lute - ORIGINAL 1641 DRAWINGOriginal drawing on vellum, lead point, 20. 9 x 18. 2 cm., signed lower right "Pieter Quast 1641." A few small stains and wrinkles, overall in fine condition. The Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman Pieter Jansz Quast, produced an important body of mostly small social genre paintings, as well as finished drawings, often on parchment vellum like the present assuredly drawn one, monogrammed and dated, and undoubtedly intended to be sold. His work