Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
PROPERTY OF THE LATE MRS. HAZEL WESTBURY
Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)

Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a 'japonsche rock', a black stallion tethered to a post in an open landscape beyond

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Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a 'japonsche rock', a black stallion tethered to a post in an open landscape beyond
signed and dated 'N.MAES. / .1669.' (lower right, on the ledge)
oil on canvas
115.5 x 94 cm.
Provenance
Christian Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1832-1906), Cologne.
Dr. Richard von Schnitzler (1855-1938), Cologne.
Heinz Kisters (1912-1977), Kreuzlingen.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 12 December 2002, lot 36, when acquired by the late owner.
Literature
W. Bombe, ‘Die Sammlung Dr. Richard von Schnitzler in Coln’, in: Cicerone, 9, 1917, pp. 403, 405, fig. 26.
O.H. Förster, Die Sammlung Dr. Richard von Schnitzler, Munich, 1931, no. 51, p. 36, plate XXVI.
U. Thieme & F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1907-50, vol. 23, 1929, p. 547.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandtschüler, Landau, 1983, III, no. 1406, pp. 2030, 2132, illustrated.
L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemlden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), Petersberg, 2000, no. A.96, fig. 151, p. 301.
Exhibited
Cologne, Kunstverein, 1929, no. 39.
Cologne, Kunstverein, Kunstsammlungen dreier Generationen einer Kölner Familie, 1934, no. 51.

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