Old Master Paintings Part Two

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Lot 250
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Nicolaes Maes Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam

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Description

  • Nicolaes Maes
  • Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter length, facing front;Portrait of a lady, three-quarter length, facing front
  • the former signed lower right: MAES.
    the latter signed lower left: MAES.
  • a pair, both oil on canvas

Provenance

L. Laubert, Brussels (according to a label on the reverse of the latter).

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Dr. León Krempel for endorsing the attribution of this pair of portraits to Nicolaes Maes, on the basis of transparencies, and for suggesting a date of execution of circa 1680.