Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Aert de Gelder

Portrait of a young man behind a balustrade, possibly a self-portrait of the artist

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January 28, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

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Aert de Gelder

Dordrecht 1645 - 1727

Portrait of a young man behind a balustrade, possibly a self-portrait of the artist


oil on canvas

26 ⅜ by 21 ¼ in.; 67 by 54 cm.

Possibly François Ignace de Dufresne, Conseiller en Bavière;
Possibly his deceased sale, Amsterdam, De Winter, Cok, Yver, 22 August 1770, lot 271;
A. Krantz, Aachen, since at least since 1969;
Private collection, Germany, 1978;
By whom sold, Cologne, Van Ham Kunstauktionen, 24 October 2019, lot 1019;
There acquired by the present owner. 
Possibly K. Lilienfeld, Arent de Gelder: Sein Leben und seine Kunst, The Hague 1914, p. 212, cat. no. 210;
D.R. van Fossen, The paintings of Aert de Gelder, diss. Harvard University, Cambridge (MA) 1969, pp. 86ff, 235, cat. no. 19, reproduced;
A. Blankert, ‘Rembrandt, Zeuxis and Ideal Beauty’, in: J. Bruyn (red.), Album amicorum J.G. van Gelder, The Hague 1973, pp. 32-39, p. 38, note 18;
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, 6 vols., Landau/Pfalz 1983-1994, 2 (1983), p. 1179, under cat. no. 813; 6 (1994), pp. 3713, 3891, no. 2297, reproduced;
W. von Moltke, Arent de Gelder: Dordrecht 1645 - 1727, Doornspijk 1994, p. 102, cat. no. 89, reproduced, plate 89, p. 104, under cat. no. 94;
J. Loughman, ‘Arent de Gelder en de kunstwereld in Dordrecht’, in: P. Schoon et al., Arent de Gelder (1645-1727) : Rembrandts laatste leerling, exh. cat. Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum 1998-1999, pp. 36-49, pp. 46-47, note 74;
E. Mai, in: Dordrecht/Cologne 1998-1999, p. 226, under cat. no. 44, fig. 1.