Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II

Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 482. Portrait of a young boy, aged 11, half length, dressed in a red doublet and white ruff.

Attributed to Otto Van Veen

Portrait of a young boy, aged 11, half length, dressed in a red doublet and white ruff

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January 27, 09:38 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

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Attributed to Otto Van Veen

Leiden 1556 or 1559 - 1629 Brussels

Portrait of a young boy, aged 11, half length, dressed in a red doublet and white ruff


inscribed upper left: AETATIS / 11

inscribed upper right: Ao1611

oil on panel

panel: 17⅛ by 12¾ in.; 43.5 by 32.4 cm.

framed: 26¾ by 23⅛ in.; 67.9 by 58.7 cm.

Collection Monsieur X, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 30 January 1933, lot 17 (as School of Frans Pourbus); 
Private Collection, Germany;
By whom sold, Cologne, Van Ham Kunstauktionen, 19 May 2022, lot 557 (as attributed to Otto van Veen);
Where acquired by the present collector.

Dated 1611, the present portrait depicts a blonde-haired eleven-year-old boy, fashionably dressed in a burgundy slashed doublet with a white ruff. Previously ascribed to the School of Frans Pourbus the Younger, this painting is now considered to be the work of his teacher, Otto van Veen, in whose workshop Sir Peter Paul Rubens also trained.


We are grateful to Bert Schepers for endorsing the present attribution.