Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort
Portrait of a Child, Aged 2 ¼, Holding a Parrot
Auction Closed
May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort
Amsterdam 1610 - 1680
Portrait of a Child, Aged 2 ¼, Holding a Parrot
inscribed and dated lower right: AEtatis. 2 ¼ . / Ao 1629.
oil on oak panel
panel: 40 ⅝ by 30 in.; 103.2 by 76.2 cm
framed: 48 ¼ by 37 ¾ in.; 122.6 by 95.9 cm
Heinrich Maas;
By whose descendants anonymously sold ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 17 December 1985, lot 188 (as Circle of Cornelis de Vos);
Where acquired by Richard Green, London (as Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort);
From whom acquired by Tom Perkins (1932-2016), Plumpton Place, East Sussex;
By whom sold ("Property from the Collection of Tom Perkins Removed from Plumpton Place, East Sussex"), London, Sotheby’s, 5 July 2012, lot 185 (as Attributed to Santvoort);
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
M.R. Harrington, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 42-45, 166, cat. no. 7, reproduced (as Santvoort).
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 7.