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Lot 24
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Jacob Huysmans, c.1633-1696

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Description

  • Jacob Huysmans
  • portrait of a boy
  • oil on canvas, in a painted cartouche, in a carved wood frame
  • 72x62cm., 28 ¾x24½in.
half length, wearing a brown tunic and blue robes

Provenance

H.L. Bischoffsheim
Messrs. Lewis & Son, sold by order of the executors, Christie's, 18th November 1932, lot 82, bt. for 16gns. (as by Mignard)

Catalogue Note

This portrait was in the celebrated Bischoffsheim collection which included paintings by Canaletto, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Greuze, Frans Hals, Hoppner, Landseer, Millais, Turner, Samuel Scott, amongst many other important works.