Self portrait of the artist, standing small half length on a balcony, wearing blue silk jacket, red silk cape, chemise and wig, holding a document in his left hand, his right arm on a marble ledge, a sculpture of the Personification of Painting in a niche beyond

The present lot is to be compared with the self portrait dated 1724 in the Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague, and with the self portrait to be dated after 1737 in the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague. We are grateful to Drs C.J.A. Wansink, RKD The Hague, for suggesting the attribution on the basis of a photograph

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