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Frans Hals

Portrait of Verdonck brandishing a jawbone

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December 3, 07:54 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Frans Hals

Antwerp 1582–1666 Haarlem

Portrait of Verdonck brandishing a jawbone


oil on canvas

56.7 x 42.7 cm.; 22⅜ x 16⅞ in.

Bears a Parke-Bernet, New York label on the reverse with the name Peltz;

Comte R. de Pomereu, Paris, 1962 (according to Slive, on the basis of an old photo);

Private collection, Switzerland, by or before 1974 (according to Slive 1974);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Drouot, Thierry de Maigret, 6 December 2024, lot 82 (as Haarlem School, circa 1650, Circle of Frans Hals, depicting Pieter Verdonck).

S. Slive, Frans Hals, vol. 3, Catalogue, London 1974, p. 35, under no. 57, reproduced fig. 24 (as by an unidentified artist, probably active in Haarlem);

P.J.J. van Thiel, `De betekenis van het portret van Verdonck door Frans Hals,’ in Oud Holland, vol. 94, 1980, no. 2/3, pp. 118–19, reproduced p. 120, fig. 6 (as Anonymous);

S. Slive, Frans Hals, exh. cat., London and Munich 1989, p. 200, under no. 24, reproduced fig. 24d;

C. Grimm (ed. E. Dullaart), Frans Hals and his workshop, online, RKD 2024 (updated 2025), no. B10, reproduced (as possibly workshop of Frans Hals and painted at the same time as the Edinburgh Verdonck), and also under no. A1.34.