Attributed to Catharina Ykens (Antwerp active 1635-after 1666)
Attributed to Catharina Ykens (Antwerp active 1635-after 1666)

Portrait of an officer, three-quarter-length, in armour, holding a commander's baton, a coastal cavalry battle in the background, in a stone cartouche surrounded by garlands of tulips, roses, carnations, purslane and other flowers, plums, grapes, chestnuts, hazelnuts and other fruits and nuts, with a butterfly and dragonfly

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Attributed to Catharina Ykens (Antwerp active 1635-after 1666)
Portrait of an officer, three-quarter-length, in armour, holding a commander's baton, a coastal cavalry battle in the background, in a stone cartouche surrounded by garlands of tulips, roses, carnations, purslane and other flowers, plums, grapes, chestnuts, hazelnuts and other fruits and nuts, with a butterfly and dragonfly
oil on canvas
104.4 x 78.8 cm.
来源
Otto Wesendonck (1815-1896), Zurich, by 1888, and by descent to his grandson
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing (1873-1965), and by descent until 2011.

荣誉呈献

Kimberley Oldenburg
Kimberley Oldenburg

拍品专文

We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the RKD, The Hague, for endorsing the attribution to Catharina Ykens (verbal communication 12 September 2012).