- 109
Nicolaes Maes Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam
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Description
- Nicolaes Maes
- a portrait of joan hieronymus hoeufft (1651-1699), standing three-quarter length, wearing armour, in a park setting
- signed lower left: MAES.
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Mr. J.A. Grothe van Schellach, Utrecht and Eindhoven, by 1894 to circa 1938 (according to the Hofstede de Groot-fiches (HdG) at the R.K.D.).
Exhibited
Eindhoven, 1938, cat. no. 51 (according to the HdG-fiches).
Literature
E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, vol. I, Amsterdam 1897, p. 428, no. 3567.2;
L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), p. 325, no. A 212a, reproduced fig. 303.
Catalogue Note
Joan Hieronymus Hoeufft was the son of Jan and Isabella Deutz and a canon in Utrecht. In 1692 he married Maria de Malapert. Maes painted another portrait of the sitter at a younger age, dated 1677, which is in a private collection (see under Literature, Krempel, p. 321, cat. no. A 190, reproduced fig. 271).
A pendant portrait of his brother, Joseph Hieronymus Hoefft, is offered here as lot 110.
A pendant portrait of his brother, Joseph Hieronymus Hoefft, is offered here as lot 110.