Circle of Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
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Circle of Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)

Portrait of a girl, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress by a fruit bowl on a draped table

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Circle of Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
Portrait of a girl, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress by a fruit bowl on a draped table
oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 25 ¾ in. (81.4 x 65.4 cm.)
Provenance
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild (1836-1905), Vienna, by 1903, and thence by descent.
with Frederick Mont, New York, by 1960.
Dr. Günter & Anne Liese Henle, Duisburg, by 1964.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 1997, lot 33, as ‘Nicolaes Maes’ (£84,000).
Literature
N. Rothschild, Notizen über einige meiner Kunstgegenstände, 1903, no. 59, as a portrait of a princess of Orange by ‘Jan Weenix’.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, 1983, III, pp. 2031 and 2142, no. 1416, illustrated, as ‘Nicolaes Maes’.
Exhibited
Cologne, 1964, cat. no. 21, illustrated.
Special notice
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