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Eglon Hendrik van der Neer

Self-Portrait as a Merry Drinker

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February 7, 04:12 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Eglon Hendrik van der Neer

Amsterdam 1635/1636 - 1703 Düsseldorf

Self Portrait as a Merry Drinker


oil on panel

panel: 8 ⅜ by 6 ⅞ in.; 21.3 by 17.5 cm

framed: 13 ⅝ by 11 ⅞ in.; 34.6 by 30.2 cm

Henry Howard, 4 Lancaster Terrace, Regent's Park, London;

His sale, London, Christie's, 18 June 1898, lot 125 (as W. Mieris);

Where acquired by "Jones";

With Axel Beskow, New York, by 1921 (as Frans van Mieris);

Private collection, United States;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1990, lot 193 (as Frans van Mieris);

With Otto Naumann, New York, 1995-2002 (as Frans van Mieris);

Private collection, Switzerland;

With Otto Naumann, New York (as Eglon van der Neer);

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian, 2005.

Stockholm, Royal Academy of Fine Arts; New York, Consignment Arts Building, Axel Beskow's Art Collection, 1921, no. 25 (as Frans van Mieris).

Catalogue of Axel Beskow's Art Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York 1921, p. 7, cat. no. 25, reproduced (as Frans van Mieris);

O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris (1635-1681), Doornspijk 1981, vol. II, pp. 157-158, cat. no. C 72 (as possibly Adriaen van der Werff and with the incorrect image);

E. Schavemaker, "Copy and Paste in the Work of Eglon van der Neer, Some Thoughts on Eclecticism," in Holland nach Rembrandt: Zur niederländischen Kunst zwischen 1670 und 1750, E. Mai (ed.), Böhlau 2006, pp. 256-258, reproduced fig. 10 (as Eglon van der Neer);

E. Schavemaker, Eglon van der Neer (1635/36-1703): His Life and His Work, Doornspijk 2010, pp. 57-59, 482, cat. no. 76, reproduced fig. 28 and pl. XXIII (as Eglon van der Neer).