Lot 48
48
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS* (1577-1640)

Details
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS* (1577-1640)

A bearded Man, bust length

oil on panel
27½ x 21in. (69.7 x 53.4cm.)
Provenance
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, where purchased by
Morris I. Kaplan (+); his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 12, 1968, lot 83 (unsold), and by descent to
Morris I. Kaplan, Jr.; sale, Christie's, New York, Jan. 11, 1989, lot 71 ($480,000 to Newhouse Galleries, New York)
Literature
M. Jaffé,
ubens, 1989, p. 240, no. 490, illustrated, as dateable to circa 1617-18

Lot Essay

Sold with a certificate from Max Friedländer dated Amsterdam, Jan. 4, 1950 as Rubens, and photostats of certificates from Dr. W.R. Valentiner dated Los Angeles, Feb. 16, 1955 and Professor Julius Held dated New York, Feb. 12, 1955, both as Rubens. Held dates the present lot to circa 1615-17 and suggests that the subject is probably an apostle