



Govaert Flinck(Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam)Portrait of Jan de Saint Gilles (1609-1664), half-length, in black
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Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Govaert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam)
signed and dated 'G.Flinck. f/ 1645' (centre right)
oil on canvas
75.1 x 63.2cm (29 9/16 x 24 7/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Frings Collection, Marienfels Castle, near Remagen
Carel Coenraad Johannes de Ridder, by whom offered
His sale, Kunsthaus H. Hahn, Frankfurt, 18 February 1932, lot 130 (as a portrait of J.D. de Heem)
Collection B. Berghaus, New York, by 1965 and thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
J. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck, Amsterdam, 1965, p.154, cat. no. 422, ill.
Previously thought to be a portrait of the artist Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684), according to Moltke the identity of the present work was discovered through an 18th century copy by Hendrik van Velthoven, inscribed with the sitter's names and dates on the reverse (see: Moltke, ibid, pp.253-4, cat no. W.140 and RKD image 204243).
A portrait of the sitter's wife, Cornelia Haringh, from the same date and in the same pose, is in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (inv.no. 6835).