Portrait of a man with a ruff, half-length

Details

Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (Dordrecht 1595-1652?)
Portrait of a man with a ruff, half-length
inscribed 'Ætatis . 50 / obÿt. Aom 1631 .' (center right) and with a coat of arms (upper right)
oil on panel
26 ¾ x 22 in. (68 x 55.9 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Fitzwilliam Wentworth; Christie's, London, 26 March 1926, lot 145, as Cuyp (460 gns. to Sampson for the following).
Michael Joseph, Birmingham.
W.W. Sampson; Christies, London, 18 February 1927, lot 31, as Cuyp (75 gns. unsold).
F.S. Salaman, for Capt. J.G.R. Hornfray; Christie's, London, 18 July 1930, lot 43, as J.G. Cuyp (65 gns. to Goudstikker).
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, as Paulus Moreelse.
Looted by the Nazi Authorities, July 1940.
Weinmüller, Munich, 30 January 1941.
Restituted in November 2003 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Literature

A. Chong, Aelbert Cuyp and the Meanings of Landscape, Ph.D. dissertation New York University, New York 1992, pp. 531-32.
A. Chong, "Catalogue raisonné: Paintings', in S. Paarlberg et al., Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594-1652), exhibition catalogue, Doordrecht, 2002, p. 173, no. 24.

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Lot Essay

As Alan Chong (op. cit., 2002) has noted, this portrait was copied by Aelbert Cuyp (see Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1996, lot 259), and that copy once possessed a pendant portrait of a woman (now lost), which was reportedly signed 'A. Cuijp fecit /Ao. 1655' and was presumably based on the lost pendant of the present work.

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