Lot 201
  • 201

Nicolaes Maes

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nicolaes Maes
  • Portrait of a mother and two children in a park
  • signed lower left: MAES
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Sale, Brussels, Ruelens, 17 April 1883, lot 170, to Pauwels;
In the collection of the widowed Madame Pauwels, born Allard, Brussels;
Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Hoevelaken, The Netherlands;
With G. Cramer, The Hague, by 1969.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, May-June, 1964;
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Rembrandt and His Pupils, 9 January - 27 April 1969, cat. no. 97;
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, A Pride of Masterpieces, July-September, 1971.

Literature

H. Hofstede de Groote, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. VI, London 1916, p. 596, cat. no. 551;
Catalogue Cramer XIV, 1968, no. 55;
H. Gerson, Rembrandt Paintings, Amsterdam 1968, p. 152, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Based on an image, Dr. León Krempel confirms the attribution and dates this work most probably to the artist's last phase circa 1687-1693.