MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (HEEMSKERCK 1498-1574 HAARLEM)
MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (HEEMSKERCK 1498-1574 HAARLEM)
MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (HEEMSKERCK 1498-1574 HAARLEM)
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Property Restituted to the Heir of Jacques Goudstikker
MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (HEEMSKERCK 1498-1574 HAARLEM)

Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, holding a letter

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MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (HEEMSKERCK 1498-1574 HAARLEM)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, holding a letter
oil on panel
29 3⁄8 x 21 ½ in. (74.6 x 54.6 cm.)
Provenance
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1928 until 1940.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Anonymous sale; H. Lange, Berlin, 3-4 December 1940, lot 80.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam.
Recovered by the Allies, 1945.
In the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.
Literature
W. Cohen, Pantheon, October II, 1929, p. 481.
C.H. de Jong, 'Portretten van Jan van Scorel en Agatha van Schoonhoven', Oud-Holland, XLIV, 1929, pp. 267ff., esp. 278, fig. 15.
M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, Leiden, 1936, XIII, p. 160, no. 230.
L. Baldass, "Bildnisse des niederländeischen Romanismus", Städel-Jahrbuch, VI, 1930, p. 85.
G.J. Hoogewerff, De Noord-Nederlandsche Schilderkunst, The Hague, 1936-47, IV, p. 332, fig. 154; V, p. 158, no. 55.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, New York and Washington, 1975, XIII, p. 92, no. 230, pl. 117.
R. Groshans, Maerten van Heemskerck: Die Gemälde, Berlin, 1980, p. 132, no. 27, fig. 30.
Old Master paintings. An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst/The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts, Zwolle and The Hague, 1992, p. 134, no. 1086.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, 1934, no. 31.
Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring and Amsterdam, Galerie Goudstikker, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker, 1928-1929, no. 33.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Oude kunst, 1939, no. 65.

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