ATTRIBUTED TO SALOMON DE BRAY | PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, BUST-LENGTH, WEARING A GOLD CHAIN

Private collection, Germany, whence acquired.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 131.

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H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2004, pp. 282–85, cat. no. 65, reproduced in colour (as Attributed to Salomon de Bray);

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 122, cat. no. 131, reproduced in colour.

The panel is dated 4 September 1664; this way of precise dating was customary among a group of Haarlem artists in the 17th century, like Salomon and his son Jan de Bray, as well as Leendert van der Cooghen.