彼得‧克拉斯

Dr. R.R. Woods, by 1957;
William Lowe Bryan Memorial Collection, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana;
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 9 June 1978, lot 115a.

Dublin, Dublin City Gallery, Paintings from Irish collections, May-August 1957, no. 86;
Indianapolis, John Herron Museum of Art, Indiana Colleges Collections, October 1964;
New Brunswick, New Jersey, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, 20 February -17 April  1983, no. 26. 

Panel is uncradled. there is a central horizontal join, slightly visible from the front, that is reinforced on the reverse with battens and tape. the paint surface is under a slightly yellowed varnish. overall the paint surface is very well retained with only some slight thinnesses to some of the background browns at right side. there are some minor scuffs and losses at the extreme edges, probably from rubbing of the frame. ultraviolet light reveals some small retouches at middle right edge and one or two along join. otherwise nothing else fluoresces. In a faux ebony wood frame.
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We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, for confirming the attribution following first hand inspection of the original. Although Martina Brunner-Bulst, from photographs, questions the autograph status of the picture, Meijer has argued that it is a typical signed and dated late work by the artist.