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Jacobus Levecq
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Jacobus Levecq
- A young man at a writing desk
- oil on canvas
Provenance
With Central Picture Galleries, New York;
George Encil, Vienna and the Bahamas.
George Encil, Vienna and the Bahamas.
Literature
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. V, Landau 1983, p. 3108, no. 2120b, reproduced p. 3265;
W. Sumowski in Experiences and Adventures of a Collector, Paris 1989, pp. 128-9.
W. Sumowski in Experiences and Adventures of a Collector, Paris 1989, pp. 128-9.
Catalogue Note
The same sitter is depicted in the signed and dated painting of 1654 at Polesden Lacey, Surrey (see W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. III, Landau 1983, p. 1746, no. 1163, reproduced p. 1749). Sumowski suggests both paitings are self portraits by the artist.1
1. Sumowski, op. cit., 1989, pp. 128-9.