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Property from an Old German Family Collection

Nicolaes Maes

Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, wearing a red silk mantle

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Description

Property from an Old German Family Collection


Nicolaes Maes

Dordrecht 1634–1693 Amsterdam

Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, wearing a red silk mantle


signed and dated indistinctly lower left: NMAES / 1670 (NM in ligature)

oil on canvas

unframed: 57 x 46.5 cm.; 22½ x 18¼ in.

framed: 77.5 x 67.5 cm.; 30½ x 26⅝ in.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 March 1920, lot 126, for £152, to Parson;

With E. Parsons & Sons, London, by 1924;

Private collection, Munich, by 1939;

Thence by inheritance to Georg Weigang (1904–1978), Grünewald, by 1945;

Thence by inheritance to the present owners.  

The Burlington Magazine, vol. 44, no. 251, February 1924, p. xxi, reproduced (advertisement);

L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälde des Nicolaes Maes, Petersberg 2000, p. 302, no. 106, reproduced n. pag., fig. 164.