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Flemish School, 17th century

Study of a child with red hair

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Description

Flemish School, 17th century

Study of a child with red hair


oil on panel

unframed: 20.8 x 15.3 cm.; 8¼ x 6 in.

framed: 38.3 x 32.5 cm.; 15⅛ x 12¾ in.

With David M. Koetser Gallery, Zürich, by 26 April 1983 (as Jordaens School);

Private collection, Zürich;

Thence by descent;

Until sold, Zürich, Schuler Auktionen, 22 September 2023, lot 3118 (as attributed to Anthony van Dyck), for 16,000 CHF;

Where acquired.

This study can be compared with the head of an angel in Sir Anthony van Dyck's Saint Jerome of around 1618–20, today in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.1


1 Accession no. VdV 22; oil on canvas, 165 x 130 cm.; https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/113476/saint-jerome. Another version of this composition, attributed to Van Dyck's workshop, is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: inv. no. NM 404; oil on canvas, 167 x 154 cm.; https://collection.nationalmuseum.se/en/collection/item/17407/.