Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Possibly Christie's London, April 8, 1932, lot 104
Offered, Christie's London, April 23, 1993, lot 11 (as by Gerrit van Honthorst)
Offered, Christie's London, October 29, 1993, lot 57 (as by Gerrit van Honthorst)
Christie's London, April 22, 1994, lot 152 (as by Gerrit van Honthorst)

D.A. de Witt, Jan van Noordt (1624 – after 1676), ..famous History- and Portrait-Painter in Amsterdam, Dissertation Queen's University, Kingston (Ontario) 2000, pp. 207-208, note 2, reproduced (as by Jacob Backer)
D.A. de Witt, Jan van Noordt. Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam, Montreal/Kingston/London/Ithaca 2007, p. 124, under cat. no. 19, note 3, reproduced fig. 46 (as by Jacob Backer)
Peter van den Brink, Jacob Backer 1608/9-1651, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 2009, p. 244, no. A118, reproduced (as by Jacob Backer)

Lined. fine pressed craquelure. two spots of loss, one above left figure's shoulder and one in left figure's chignon. slight paint lifting in nape of neck of right figure. obvious repaint on left side of neck of right figure. under UV: thick old varnish; a few varnish drips lower right; upper half shows faint old repaint including numerous long vertical strokes upper left; a few spots of retouching in hair of each figure and a 5 by 5 inch area to the right of the right figure's head, as well as to above mentioned nape of neck.
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