ATTRIBUTED TO ARY DE VOIS | PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, SAID TO BE THE ARTIST ADRIAN VAN DER WERFF (1659-1722), HALF-LENGTH, AS A SHEPHERD

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May 29, 06:09 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection

ATTRIBUTED TO ARY DE VOIS

Utrecht 1630/5 - 1680 Leiden

PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, SAID TO BE THE ARTIST ADRIAN VAN DER WERFF (1659-1722), HALF-LENGTH, AS A SHEPHERD

inscribed with monogram on the reverse: ALB (in ligature) 153

oil on copper

copper: 8 by 7 in.; 20.3 by 17.8 cm.

framed: 13¼ by 12¼ in.; 33.7 by 31.1 cm.

Please note that although this painting was formerly offered as signed in 2009, a signature is not visible.

Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet (1677-1746), Flintshire, Wales;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 May 1865, lot 132 (where unsold and as A. de Voys);

Sir T. Harmer;

J. Schofield;

Thence by descent in the family;

By whom anonymously sold ('Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 12 October 1979, lot 48 (as Arie de Voys), for 761 Guineas;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 April 2003, lot 53 (as Circle of Arie de Vois)

With Rafael Valls Limited, London, circa 2005;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 8 July 2009, lot 141 (as indistinctly signed upper left);

There acquired by the present collector.

P. H. Janssen, Jan van Bijlert, Amsterdam 1998, p. 197, under cat. no. R18.

A copy of this painting is in the The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (inv. no. 66.23.10).(1)

1. See P. H. Janssen, Jan van Bijlert, Amsterdam 1998, p. 197, cat. no. R18, reproduced, p. 363, fig. 223 (under rejected attributions, as "a copy after a painting attributed to Arie de Vois").