Old Master Paintings

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Lot 35
  • 35

Attributed to Willem Adriaensz. Key Breda circa 1515/6 - 1568 (?) Antwerp

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Description

  • Willem Key
  • a portrait of a bearded gentleman, aged 31, standing three-quarter length, wearing a black coat, holding gloves in his right hand
  • dated and inscribed with the age of the sitter upper right: .Ætatis. Suæ.31/ An°.1563.
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Unidentified sale, London, Sotheby's, 1937 (as school of Anthonie Mor van Dashorst);
Private collection, Laren;
With D. Katz, Dieren;
With Borghouts, Utrecht, before 1963 (as attributed to Dirck Barentsz.);
With Maurice Gazan, Dilbeek, by 1963 (all the above according to a certificate provided by Gazan in 1963);
Private collection, Belgium, by 1970.