NICOLAS MAES (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)

Portrait of Johannes Bouwens (1663-1720), half-length, in a brown jacket and an embroidered waistcoat, his left arm resting on the base of a column

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NICOLAS MAES (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
Portrait of Johannes Bouwens (1663-1720), half-length, in a brown jacket and an embroidered waistcoat, his left arm resting on the base of a column
with indistinct signature 'N MAE*' ('MAE' interlinked', lower right)
oil on canvas
25¼ x 21¼ in. (64.1 x 54 cm.)

Provenance

J. Tayleur; Christie's, London, 13 April 1923, lot 33 (33 gns. to Leger).
H.W. van Aerdenne, Dordrecht.

Literature

L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes, Petersberg, 2000, p. 329, no. 233 and fig. 314.

Lot Essay

According to C. Hofstede de Groot, the portrait of Bouwens was executed in 1628 at the age of 22. The coat-of-arms of the sitter's grandparents (Bouwens, Simons, van Nutt and de la Court) appear on each of the corners.

Sold with a photocopy of the certificate confirming the attribution to Maes by C. Hofstede de Groot, 1924.

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