Dutch School, 17th Century
Portrait of a gentleman wearing a ruff, three-quarter-length,
oil on panel, oval, 106 x 80 cm, framed
Provenance:
Private collection, United Kingdom
The present, exquisite portrayal of an elegantly dressed gentleman, wearing a silver gilt swordbelt and with a plumed hat on the table beside him is a fine example of Amsterdam school portraiture in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Although the identity of the artist who painted this work remains an intriguing mystery, such an accomplished hand rivals the work of great masters of the period. Whether a minor nobleman, or successful burgher, the sitter in the present portrait is turned contrapposto towards us, with an air of effortless confidence. This marks both the painter, and the sitter out as gentlemen, having absorbed the concept of Sprezzatura first espoused in Castiglione’s 1528 work The Courtier which remained influential among the highly literate and newly minted mercantile classes of the Dutch Republic.
A dendrochonological survery by Ian Tyers dates the three boards of the Baltic oak panel to between 1599 and 1633.
Specialist: Damian Brenninkmeyer
Damian Brenninkmeyer
+43 1 515 60 403
old.masters@dorotheum.com
10.11.2022 - 17:52
- Estimate:
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EUR 8,000.- to EUR 12,000.-
- Starting bid:
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EUR 7,000.-
Dutch School, 17th Century
Portrait of a gentleman wearing a ruff, three-quarter-length,
oil on panel, oval, 106 x 80 cm, framed
Provenance:
Private collection, United Kingdom
The present, exquisite portrayal of an elegantly dressed gentleman, wearing a silver gilt swordbelt and with a plumed hat on the table beside him is a fine example of Amsterdam school portraiture in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Although the identity of the artist who painted this work remains an intriguing mystery, such an accomplished hand rivals the work of great masters of the period. Whether a minor nobleman, or successful burgher, the sitter in the present portrait is turned contrapposto towards us, with an air of effortless confidence. This marks both the painter, and the sitter out as gentlemen, having absorbed the concept of Sprezzatura first espoused in Castiglione’s 1528 work The Courtier which remained influential among the highly literate and newly minted mercantile classes of the Dutch Republic.
A dendrochonological survery by Ian Tyers dates the three boards of the Baltic oak panel to between 1599 and 1633.
Specialist: Damian Brenninkmeyer
Damian Brenninkmeyer
+43 1 515 60 403
old.masters@dorotheum.com
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| Auction: | Old Master Paintings II |
| Auction type: | Online auction |
| Date: | 10.11.2022 - 17:52 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 22.10. - 09.11.2022 |