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Bartholomeus Maton

Portrait of a Man Holding a Standard

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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Bartholomeus Maton

Leiden 1641 - 1684 Stockholm

Portrait of a Man Holding a Standard


signed lower left: MT

oil on panel

panel: 11 ⅛ by 9 ½ in.; 28.3 by 24.1 cm

framed: 19 ⅞ by 18 in.; 50.5 by 45.7 cm

Private collection, France;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 1998, lot 33;

Where acquired by Johnny van Haeften, London;

From whom acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

M. Hale, in Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, exhibition catalogue, London 1999, n.p., cat. no. 12, reproduced;

J.M. Massing, The Image of the Black in Western Art, vol. III, pt. 2, From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Cambridge and London 2011, pp. 250-251, reproduced fig. 164;

M. 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. 86-88, 171, cat. no. 18, reproduced.

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. 18.