Lot Essay
The present lot is the only known work by the artist
Details
D. Smit (active circa 1681)
Portrait of a Gentleman, aged 54, standing small half length by a draped table, wearing black costume with red waistcoat and cap, his right hand resting on an celestial globe on the table - in a feigned stone oval cartouche decorated with nautical symbols
signed and dated lower left .D.smit/.Ao(linked)1681. and inscribed with the age of the sitter upper right .54 jaar/oudt., oil on panel, unframed
37.7 x 31.8 cm
Portrait of a Gentleman, aged 54, standing small half length by a draped table, wearing black costume with red waistcoat and cap, his right hand resting on an celestial globe on the table - in a feigned stone oval cartouche decorated with nautical symbols
signed and dated lower left .D.smit/.Ao(linked)1681. and inscribed with the age of the sitter upper right .54 jaar/oudt., oil on panel, unframed
37.7 x 31.8 cm
Provenance
Baron van den Bogaerde, Heeswijk; Sale, Bois-le-Duc, 19 June 1900, lot 94, where probably acquired by the family of the present owner
Literature
U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon etc., XXXI, p. 166