Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)

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Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)

Portrait of a woman seated at a table holding a garland of flowers, three-quarter-length, a view into a landscape beyond

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Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
Portrait of a woman seated at a table holding a garland of flowers, three-quarter-length, a view into a landscape beyond
signed and dated 'MAES / 16[7/9?]3' (center left, on the table)
oil on canvas
27 7/8 x 23 1/8 in. (70.7 x 58.6 cm.)

Provenance

(Possibly) John Wanamaker (1838-1922), Lindenhurst (Lyndenhurst), Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
(Possibly) with Sedelmeyer, Paris.
Mrs. Joseph E. Cain, by whom gifted to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indiana in 1968.

Literature

A Catalogue of European Paintings: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1970, p. 105, with incorrect dimensions and credit line.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. William W. Robinson for endorsing the attribution to Maes on the basis of photographs. Dr. Robinson has suggested that, on the basis of the painting's style and the woman's dress and hair style, the date should be read as 1693 rather than 1673 as traditionally published.

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