Nicolaes Maes(Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, holding a pair of gloves
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signed and dated '.N.MAES/.1655.' (lower right)
oil on panel
91.2 x 69.1cm (35 7/8 x 27 3/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Collection of Walter de Zoete, Colchester and Blenheim House, North Berwick
His sale, Christie's, London, 5 April 1935, lot 99 (bt. Art Export Co)
With M. Schulthess, Basel, 1935
Acquired by the present owner's grandfather in Basel over 70 years ago
Literature
W.W. Robinson, 'Nicholaes Maes: Some Observations on His Early Portraits', in Rembrandt and His Pupils: Papers Given at a Symposium in Nationalmuseum Stockholm, 2–3 October 1992, Stockholm, 1993, pp.99, 100, ill., fig. 1
W. Robinson, The early works of Nicolaes Maes, 1653 to 1661, PhD thesis, Cambridge (Mass.), 1996, p.6, ill. fig. 22, pp. 175-178, cat no. A-45
L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693), Petersberg, 2000, p. 282, cat. no. A13, ill, Abb. 61
The present portrait, dated 1655, appears to be one of Nicolaes Maes' earliest portraits painted not long after he left Rembrandt's studio. The sitter is depicted with a glove in his left hand and pressing his right hand over his heart suggesting that this is a marriage portrait, although the pendant portrait appears to be lost.
