Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

A Man in a black Cap reading at a Table

细节

Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)
Rembrandt
A Man in a black Cap reading at a Table
oil on panel
12 x 11in. (32.3 x 27.9cm.)

来源

with Newhouse Galleries, New York (advertised on the back cover of The Art Journal, XXVI, Fall, 1936), as Samuel van Hoogstraten, from whom purchased by the present owner.

拍品专文

The present work is a superior version of a composition recorded as 'Rembrandt school' by Professor Werner Sumowski and dated to the 1640s (W. Sumowski, Gemlde der Rembrandt-Schler, 1983, IV, p. 2965, no. 1985). In private correspondence, March 1998, Professor Sumowski notes that although he believes that both these works, and a copy in the Museo Municipal, Bjar (Inv. no. 51), may be based on an as yet untraced original, there is in the still life elements a similarity to the work of Heyman Dullaert (1636-1684); see, for example W. Sumowski, op. cit., p. 3704, no. 2261.

We are grateful to Professor W. Sumowski for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.