The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | Master Paintings & Sculpture

The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | Master Paintings & Sculpture

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1027. Self-Portrait as a Merry Drinker.

Eglon Hendrik van der Neer

Self-Portrait as a Merry Drinker

Live auction begins on:

February 7, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Eglon Hendrik van der Neer

Amsterdam 1635/1636 - 1703 Düsseldorf

Self Portrait as a Merry Drinker


oil on panel

panel: 8 ⅜ by 6 ⅞ in.; 21.3 by 17.5 cm

framed: 13 ⅝ by 11 ⅞ in.; 34.6 by 30.2 cm

Henry Howard, 4 Lancaster Terrace, Regent's Park, London;

His sale, London, Christie's, 18 June 1898, lot 125 (as W. Mieris);

Where acquired by "Jones";

With Axel Beskow, New York, by 1921 (as Frans van Mieris);

Private collection, United States;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1990, lot 193 (as Frans van Mieris);

With Otto Naumann, New York, 1995-2002 (as Frans van Mieris);

Private collection, Switzerland;

With Otto Naumann, New York (as Eglon van der Neer);

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian, 2005.

Catalogue of Axel Beskow's Art Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York 1921, p. 7, cat. no. 25, reproduced (as Frans van Mieris);

O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris (1635-1681), Doornspijk 1981, vol. II, pp. 157-158, cat. no. C 72 (as possibly Adriaen van der Werff and with the incorrect image);

E. Schavemaker, "Copy and Paste in the Work of Eglon van der Neer, Some Thoughts on Eclecticism," in Holland nach Rembrandt: Zur niederländischen Kunst zwischen 1670 und 1750, E. Mai (ed.), Böhlau 2006, pp. 256-258, reproduced fig. 10 (as Eglon van der Neer);

E. Schavemaker, Eglon van der Neer (1635/36-1703): His Life and His Work, Doornspijk 2010, pp. 57-59, 482, cat. no. 76, reproduced fig. 28 and pl. XXIII (as Eglon van der Neer).

Stockholm, Royal Academy of Fine Arts; New York, Consignment Arts Building, Axel Beskow's Art Collection, 1921, no. 25 (as Frans van Mieris).