Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II

Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II

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From the Collection of Seymour and Zoya Slive, Sold Without Reserve

Dutch School, 17th Century

Portrait of a young man, aged 21, with a quill pen

No reserve

Auction Closed

January 27, 09:38 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

From the Collection of Seymour and Zoya Slive, Sold Without Reserve

Dutch School, 17th Century

Portrait of a young man, aged 21, with a quill pen


faintly inscribed and dated upper right: AETAT. 21 / Ao 1625

oil on panel

panel: 21⅜ by 16 in.; 54.3 by 40.6 cm.

framed: 27⅜by 22 in.; 27.4 by 55.9 cm.

Edward Speyer (1839-1934), Ridgehurst, Shenley, Hertsfordshire;
His wife's sale ("The Property of Mrs. Edward Speyer"), London, Christie's, 27 June 1930, lot 97 (as Cornelisz van Haarlem);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 22 July 1935, lot 58 (as Cornelisz van Haarlem);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 26 June 1936, lot 75 (as Cornelisz van Haarlem);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 December 1937, lot 123 (as Cornelisz van Haarlem);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 22 July 1938, lot 58 (as Cornelisz van Haarlem, bought by 'Northrop');
With Louis Joseph Auction Gallery, Boston;
Seymour and Zoya Slive, Cambridge, MA.
Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School: Winter Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London 1910, p. 29, cat. no. 102 (as by Joos van Cleve);
J. Welu, 17th Century Dutch Painting, Raising the Curtain on New England Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1979, p. 29, cat. no. 6, reproduced (as Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem);
P.J.J. van Thiel, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem1562-1638: A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, Doornspijk 1999, p. 485 (as doubtful attribution to Cornelis van Haarlem).