1307
„Portrait of a Gentleman“
1654
oil on canvas
74 × 65 cm
signed with monogram and dated lower left: GVK. (in ligature) F. 1654
Provenance
Art Gallery Durand-Ruel, Paris;
1939 Collection Mrs. Washington B. Thomas, Boston;
1962 Collection Mrs. William Tudor Gardiner, Boston;
1987 Art Gallery K. & V. Waterman, Amsterdam;
Sale Sotheby's London, 16 December 1999, lot 360 (as Gerard van Kuijl, certificate by Willem L. van de Watering, dated 6 July 1982 is mentioned in the catalogue);
private collection, Germany;
Dorotheum, Vienna, 7 April 2006, lot 78 (attributed to Govaert Flinck);
private property, Austria
Exhibition
Art in New England, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1939, cat. no. 44, ill. XXII (as Govaert Flinck)
Literature
Joachim Wolfgang Moltke, Govaert Flinck, Amsterdam 1965, p. 127, no. 292 (with ill.; as Govaert Flinck);
Albert Blankert/Leonard J. Slatkes, Nieuw Licht op de Gouden Eeuw. Hendrick ter Brugghen en tijdgenoten, exhibition catalogue, Centraal Museum/Herzog Anton Ulricht-Museum, Utrecht/Braunschweig 1986-87, p. 306, ill. 132 (as Gerard van Kuijl);
Fieke Tissink/H.F. de Wit, Gorcumse schilders in de Gouden Eeuw; Utrecht 1987, p. 30-31, with ill. (as Gerard van Kuijl)
The painting is registered at the database of Rijksbureau voor kunsthistorische Documentatie, Den Haag (RKD), ill. No. 63418.
Estimate: € 10.000 - 20.000
Auction is closed.