Lot 22*
Dutch School17th CenturyPortrait of a bearded gentleman, bust-length, in a white ruff
Amended
5 July 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £44,800 inc. premium
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Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Dutch School, 17th Century
Portrait of a bearded gentleman, bust-length, in a white ruff
oil on panel
54.9 x 41.5cm (21 5/8 x 16 5/16in).
oil on panel
54.9 x 41.5cm (21 5/8 x 16 5/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Probably Ragotz Collection, by whom offered
Probably Sale, Jovenau, Doornik, 5 September 1740, lot 60 (as a Portrait of Brueghel by Frans Pourbus)
Probably Collection of Baron Thompson, by whom offered
Probably Sale, Squibb, London, 21 June 1817, lot 36
Collection of A. Diez
His sale, Helbing, Munich, 14 December 1896, lot 1352 (as Pourbus the Younger)
The Collection of Kommerzienrat Stephan C. Michel, Mainz
His sale, Lepke, Berlin, 27 February 1917, lot 80 (as an unknown Flemish Master of the 17th Century), where purchased by
With Oskar Skaller for M. Pech (as Rubens)
With Kunsthandel Komter, Amsterdam
With Oskar Skaller, before February 1932
His sale, Internationales Kunst-und Auktionshaus, Berlin, 2 February 1932, lot 304 (unsold)
Probably, Collection of Max Graubard, Warsaw, 1932, by whom offered
Sale, Internationales Kunst-und Auktionshaus, Berlin, 15 May 1935, lot 383 (as Sammlung N)
Collection of Hans Langer (1916-1980), Berlin by 1 June 1935 and taken to Johannesburg and thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
H.P. Bremmer, Beeldende Kunst, Utrecht, 1925, vol. II, no. 304, ill.
Dr. L. Burchard, 'Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsemmlungen' vol. 50, Berlin, 1929, book 4, p. 319, annotation
The present work is offered with a copy of a certificate from Dr. Ludwig Burchard (dated 26 January 1927) in which he states this is a 'characteristic work of Peter Paul Rubens'.
Note on the provenance
In the 1935 sale the vendor of lots 381-387 is denoted by the initial 'N'. Lot 386, in the same sale, a head of Christ attributed to van Dyck, was, according to Ludwig Burchard's notes, in the possession of Max Graubard in Warsaw in 1932.
Exhaustive research has failed to yield any record of this painting other than as stated in the provenance. It does not appear on any list of missing works sought for restitution, nor to the best of our knowledge could it be confused with any such work.
Saleroom notices
Please note the following additional literature for this lot: K. van der Stighelen and H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIX, part 3: Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp, London, 2021, p. 234, cat.no. R3, ill., fig. 163