Portrait of a baby boy, seated on a cushion by a draped curtain, wearing a white satin dress and feathered hat, a pet dog on his lap, a landscape beyond

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Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693)
Portrait of a baby boy, seated on a cushion by a draped curtain, wearing a white satin dress and feathered hat, a pet dog on his lap, a landscape beyond
signed (strengthened) and dated (strengthened) AET. 4M 6V/N.MAES 1664 lower right
oil on canvas
91.2 x 72.9 cm

Provenance

H.Linde.
Leon Hirsch, His Sale, American Art Association New York, 29 January 1914, lot 48, ill.
with Ehrich, New York.
C.Bayart, His Sale, Fievez Brussels, 10 December 1928, lot 39, fig.17.

Literature

C.Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VI, 1915, p.595, no.548.
W.R.Valentiner, Nicolaes Maes, 1924, p.58, ill.
L.Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), 2000, p.295, no.A65, fig.155.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Krempel lists six other paintings which are dated 1664 (L.Krempel, op.cit., p.294/5, no.A60-A65). All these, including the present picture, are characterised by a monumental scale, showing Flemish tendencies, inspired by van Dyck.
This monumentality would persist throughout the 1660's; in the 1670's Maes introduced a new cabinet size scale to portraiture.

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