Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 146. Portrait of a young man in a black cap, holding a carnation.

Property from a German Private Collection

Workshop of Frans Hals

Portrait of a young man in a black cap, holding a carnation

Lot Closed

December 9, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a German Private Collection

Workshop of Frans Hals

Antwerp 1582/83 - 1666 Haarlem

Portrait of a young man in a black cap, holding a carnation


oil on canvas

unframed: 78.4 x 62.2 cm.; 30⅞ x 24½ in.

framed: 103 x 87.5 cm.; 40½ x 34½ in.

Claude-Maurice-Henri Roxard de la Salle (1837–1882), Nancy;
His sale, Paris, Drouot, 28 March 1881, lot 18 (as Hals);
With K. Erasmus, Berlin, 1925;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 December 1933, lot 107, for £900 (as Hals; sold with certificates of authentication by Dr Hofstede de Groot, Dr Kurt Erasmus, Dr Wilhelm von Böde and M.P. Binder);
Dr F. Pauwels (1885–1980);
By inheritance to his wife Sibylle Königs;
By whom bequeathed to the present owner in 2006.
S. Slive, Frans Hals, London 1974, vol. III, p. 136, under no. D22, no. 2 (under doubtful works).