Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Gerrit van Honthorst

A merry violinist holding a roemer

Lot Closed

January 30, 03:37 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Gerrit van Honthorst

Utrecht 1592 - 1656

A merry violinist holding a roemer


oil on canvas

canvas: 32 1/4 by 26 1/4 in.; 81.9 by 66.8 cm.

framed: 40 1/2 by 34 3/4 in.; 102.9 by 83.2 cm.

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 28 November 1967, lot 2 (when advertised in Die Weltkunst, 1 November 1967, p. 1107; as Dirck Baburen);
Heinz Mosch, Wiesbaden, by 1973;
Anonymous sale ('Property from a German Private Collection'), Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 11 November 2008, lot 88 (as Studio of Honthorst);
Private collection, Europe, until 2018;
Anonymous sale, Zurich, Koller, 28 September 2018, lot 3033 (as Studio of Honthorst).
I. Gaskell, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Painting, London 1989, pp. 190-91, note 24 (as a variant);
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1989, vol. I, p. 126, under cat. no. 1274, (as a 'near-replica');
J.R. Judson and R. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst 1592-1656, Ghent 1999, pp. 188-89, under cat. no. 239, no. 1 (as a copy).
Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 5 Sammler - 5 Meinungen, 8 April - 27 May 1973.