Lot Essay
Gudlaugsson (loc. cit.) dates the painting to circa 1660.
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Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a white chemise, black costume and hat, holding gloves in his right hand
Details
Studio of Gerard Terborch (Zwolle 1582/83-1662)
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a white chemise, black costume and hat, holding gloves in his right hand
with initials 'GT' (centre right)
oil on panel
49.4 x 37.6 cm.
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a white chemise, black costume and hat, holding gloves in his right hand
with initials 'GT' (centre right)
oil on panel
49.4 x 37.6 cm.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Lepke Berlin, 22 February 1910, lot 86.
Max Kellner, Vienna.
Anonymous sale; Lepke, Berlin, 3 December 1929, lot 1 (DM 13,500 to Jacques Goudstikker.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1948.
in the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.
Max Kellner, Vienna.
Anonymous sale; Lepke, Berlin, 3 December 1929, lot 1 (DM 13,500 to Jacques Goudstikker.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1948.
in the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.
Literature
Cicerone, XXI, November 1929, no. 22, p. 659, as Gerard Terborgh. Kunst und Künstler, XXXVIII, November 1929, II, p. 84.
S.J. Gudlaugsson, Gerard Terborch, 1959, II, p. 246, no. B 3.
C. Wright, Paintings in Dutch Museums. An Index of Oil Paintings in Public Collections in The Netherlands by Artists born before 1870, London, 1980, p. 49, as school of Gerard Terborch.
Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), The Hague, 1992, p. 50, no. 275, illustrated, as follower of Gerard Terborch.
S.J. Gudlaugsson, Gerard Terborch, 1959, II, p. 246, no. B 3.
C. Wright, Paintings in Dutch Museums. An Index of Oil Paintings in Public Collections in The Netherlands by Artists born before 1870, London, 1980, p. 49, as school of Gerard Terborch.
Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), The Hague, 1992, p. 50, no. 275, illustrated, as follower of Gerard Terborch.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Jacques Goudstikker Gallery, Catalogue des Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, April-May 1930, no. 58, illustrated, as Gerard Terborch.
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