Jan de Baen
Portrait of a man standing before a desk and curtain, three-quarter length; Portrait of a woman seated before a landscape and curtain
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May 25, 03:13 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Jan de Baen
1633 - 1702
Portrait of a man standing before a desk and curtain, three-quarter length;
Portrait of a woman seated before a landscape and curtain
faintly signed on the first canvas, upper right: J Baen
a pair, both oil on canvas
each canvas: 47 by 39 in.; 119.5 by 99 cm.
each framed: 56 by 49 in.; 142.2 by 124.5 cm.
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Jan de Baen trained with Jacob Adriaensz. Backer in Amsterdam and shortly thereafter began working for the exiled court of Charles II. Declining to follow his patron back to England in 1660, De Baen remained in the Hague working as a portrait painter. His patrons included the burgher and upper classes. The couple depicted here are clearly of means: the man is likely a merchant, as conveyed by the Oriental carpet and letters strewn on the table and displayed in the window, and the woman wears jeweled rings, gold bracelets and necklace, a pearl encrusted headband and large pearl earrings.