Abraham de Vries
Portrait of a bearded man
Lot Closed
July 4, 09:45 AM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Abraham de Vries
The Hague (?) c. 1590–1649/50
Portrait of a bearded man
bears monogram and date, centre right: AVD (in ligature) / anno 1629
oil on Baltic oak panel, reduced
unframed: 66.4 x 55.2 cm.; 26⅛ x 21¾ in.
framed: 86 x 75.1 cm.; 33⅞ x 29⅝ in.
Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 20 June 1987, lot 347, for 88,800 French francs (as Simon Kick, Portrait d'un homme barbu);
Anonymous sale ('Property from an English Private Collection'), Paris, Sotheby's, 15 June 2021, lot 26, for €170,100 (as Abraham de Vries, Portrait of Jacques Boyceau (1560–1633));
Where acquired by the previous owner.
C. van de Puttelaar and F.G. Meijer, 'Under the skin: Portraits by Abraham de Vries (c. 1590–1649/50) recognised and revealed', in Oud Holland, vol. 136, no. 4, 2023, pp. 187, 189–91, 193–94, ns 17–18, 22–25, 27, reproduced in colour fig. 11a, digital X-ray image reproduced fig. 11b (as Abraham de Vries, Portrait of a bearded man (Jacques Boyceau, sieur de la Barauderie)).
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