



Salomon de Bray(Amsterdam 1597-1664 Haarlem)Young man with a flute
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Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Salomon de Bray (Amsterdam 1597-1664 Haarlem)
signed and dated 'SD Bray 164*' (lower right)
oil on panel
67.4 x 50.4cm (26 9/16 x 19 13/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Beris Family, Naples, 1854 (as Rembrandt, Portrait of Henri, Duke of Gloucester and son of Charles I, as a shepherd)
Sale, Galerie Fievez, Brussels, 14 May 1928, lot 13
Private Collection, Paris until 1965
With Francois Heim, Paris and London, 1969 (according to exhibition catalogue)
Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 4 June 1984, lot 4 (as dated 1641, for 68,000frs)
Sale, Christie's, Paris, 24 June 2004, lot 25, where sold after the sale
Sale, Stair Galleries, 27 April 2019, lot 476, where purchased by the present owner
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition, Rembrandt and his pupils: a loan exhibition of paintings commemorating the 300th anniversary of Rembrandt: Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, 9 January- 23 February 1969; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 14 March- 27 April 1969, cat. no. 33
Literature
J. W. von Moltke, 'Salomon de Bray', Marburger Jahrbuch fur Kunstwissenschaft, vol. XI-XII, 1938-9, pp. 366-67, 388, no. 98, fig. 56 (as dated 1640)
According to Moltke, the composition and lighting are reminiscent of two works, dated 1635, in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (in. no. 1377 and previously 1366, destroyed during WWII). It is possible that de Bray used the same model for the present portrait and the male portrait in Dresden.