Lot Essay
We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs and dating the work to the 1670's.
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A vanitas portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a gold dress and purple wrap, her elbow resting on a skull, with an hour-glass and an open book, in a landscape
Details
Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1632-1693 Amsterdam)
A vanitas portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a gold dress and purple wrap, her elbow resting on a skull, with an hour-glass and an open book, in a landscape
oil on canvas
45 x 36 in. (114.3 x 91.4 cm.)
A vanitas portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a gold dress and purple wrap, her elbow resting on a skull, with an hour-glass and an open book, in a landscape
oil on canvas
45 x 36 in. (114.3 x 91.4 cm.)
Provenance
with Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, London.
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