Lot 191
  • 191

Nicholas van Helt, called Stocade

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Nicholas van Helt, called Stocade
  • Portrait of two children, full length, as hunters in a garden with two hounds and a servant leading a horse
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Baron D. W...e Danvers E.A. Collection;
His sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Müller, 17 November 1903, lot 72 (as Abraham van den Tempel);
Prince Poniatowski Collection, Paris, by 1913, inv. no. 8737 (as Abraham van den Tempel);
Sale, Paris, Couturier & Nicolay, 17 March 1989, lot 28 (as Abraham van den Tempel)
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, January 30, 1997, lot 190 (as Abraham van den Tempel in the printed catalogue, corrected to Louis Vallee in a saleroom notice);
With Pieter Hoogendijk, Baarn, 2003-2004.

Literature

Prince A. Poniatowski, D'un siècle a l'autre, Paris 1948, p. 492.

Catalogue Note

Previously thought to be a work by Louis Vallee or Abraham van den Tempel, Willem van de Watering gave this handsome portrait to Nicholas van Helt, called Stocade in 2004, an attribution also supported by Rudi Ekkart and Fred Meijer.