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* Adriaen van der Werff
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Description
- Adriaen van der Werff
- Portrait of a Gentleman
- indistinct traces of a signature on the pedestal lower left
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Rotterdam, Luchtmans, April 20, 1816, lot 166 (with a pendant);
M.C. von Schinkel, Schloss Tidö, Sweden, 1911;
B. Svenonius, Stockholm, by 1928
By whom sold, Berlin, Wertheim, April 30, 1930, lot 61;
Probably with Max Stren, Berlin;
With Dominion Galleries, Montreal, by June, 1946;
Julius S. Held
From whom purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Feder, New York, in 1960.
M.C. von Schinkel, Schloss Tidö, Sweden, 1911;
B. Svenonius, Stockholm, by 1928
By whom sold, Berlin, Wertheim, April 30, 1930, lot 61;
Probably with Max Stren, Berlin;
With Dominion Galleries, Montreal, by June, 1946;
Julius S. Held
From whom purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Feder, New York, in 1960.
Exhibited
Lund, Skanska Konstmuseum, 1927/28, no. 6.
Literature
O. Granberg, Inventaire Générale de Trésors d'Art [...] en Suéde, Vol. I, 1911, no. 416;
H. de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der Hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart 1928, p. 289, no. 203 (as signed and dated 1690, with a pendant, no. 210);
B. Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff 1659-1722, Munich 1987, p. 384, cat. no. 119, reproduced (as signed and dated 1690?, with a pendant, cat. no. C21).
H. de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der Hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart 1928, p. 289, no. 203 (as signed and dated 1690, with a pendant, no. 210);
B. Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff 1659-1722, Munich 1987, p. 384, cat. no. 119, reproduced (as signed and dated 1690?, with a pendant, cat. no. C21).
Catalogue Note
The present portrait is listed in Hofstede de Groot (see Literature below) as signed and dated 1690 on the pedestal. Gaehtgens (see Literature) mentions that when the painting was with Dominion Gallery in Montreal, their catalogue listed it as signed and dated 1696.