Property from a Private Collection, Hong Kong
Follower of Arnold Houbraken
The painter and his model
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Property from a Private Collection, Hong Kong
Follower of Arnold Houbraken
The painter and his model
oil on panel
unframed: 37.5 x 29 cm.; 14¾ x 11⅜ in.
framed: 49 x 38.9 cm.; 19¼ x 15¼ in.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 17 December 1987, lot 13 (as manner of Etienne Jeaurat).
This composition relates to a design by Houbraken, which is best known today by way of a mezzotint by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673–1746) and a painted copy,1 thought to be after Verkolje's print,2 in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
1 Inv. no. SK-C-153; oil on panel, 28.5 x 19 cm.
2 An impression of the print is also in the Rijksmuseum: inv. no. RP-P-OB-17.591; mezzotint on Japanese paper, 28.6 x 17.2 cm.
