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Amsterdam School, mid-17th century
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Property from a Private Collection
Amsterdam School, mid-17th century
Portrait of a boy, half-length, holding a cardinal
oil on oak panel
unframed: 61.4 x 50.5 cm.; 24⅛ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 82.4 x 69.7 cm.; 32½ x 27½ in.
Provenance
In the family of the present owner for the last thirty years.Catalogue note
The Northern Cardinal is a bird native to North America, and is therefore likely to have been a very rare specimen around the time this unidentified portrait was completed in the mid–seventeenth century. A near contemporary depiction of such a bird can be found in a forest floor still life by the Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619/20–1678) in the collection of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau.1
1 Oil on canvas, 52 x 39 cm.; G. Seelig, Medusa's Menagerie, Otto Marseus van Schriek and the Scholars, exh. cat., Munich 2017, p. 58, reproduced in colour fig. 40.
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Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.
Amsterdam School, mid-17th century
Portrait of a boy, half-length, holding a cardinal
oil on oak panel
unframed: 61.4 x 50.5 cm.; 24⅛ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 82.4 x 69.7 cm.; 32½ x 27½ in.
Provenance
In the family of the present owner for the last thirty years.Catalogue note
The Northern Cardinal is a bird native to North America, and is therefore likely to have been a very rare specimen around the time this unidentified portrait was completed in the mid–seventeenth century. A near contemporary depiction of such a bird can be found in a forest floor still life by the Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619/20–1678) in the collection of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau.1
1 Oil on canvas, 52 x 39 cm.; G. Seelig, Medusa's Menagerie, Otto Marseus van Schriek and the Scholars, exh. cat., Munich 2017, p. 58, reproduced in colour fig. 40.
Additional Notices & Disclaimers
Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.
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Property from a Private Collection
Amsterdam School, mid-17th century
Portrait of a boy, half-length, holding a cardinal
oil on oak panel
unframed: 61.4 x 50.5 cm.; 24⅛ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 82.4 x 69.7 cm.; 32½ x 27½ in.
Provenance
In the family of the present owner for the last thirty years.Catalogue note
The Northern Cardinal is a bird native to North America, and is therefore likely to have been a very rare specimen around the time this unidentified portrait was completed in the mid–seventeenth century. A near contemporary depiction of such a bird can be found in a forest floor still life by the Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619/20–1678) in the collection of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau.1
1 Oil on canvas, 52 x 39 cm.; G. Seelig, Medusa's Menagerie, Otto Marseus van Schriek and the Scholars, exh. cat., Munich 2017, p. 58, reproduced in colour fig. 40.
Additional Notices & Disclaimers
Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.
Amsterdam School, mid-17th century
Portrait of a boy, half-length, holding a cardinal
oil on oak panel
unframed: 61.4 x 50.5 cm.; 24⅛ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 82.4 x 69.7 cm.; 32½ x 27½ in.
Provenance
In the family of the present owner for the last thirty years.Catalogue note
The Northern Cardinal is a bird native to North America, and is therefore likely to have been a very rare specimen around the time this unidentified portrait was completed in the mid–seventeenth century. A near contemporary depiction of such a bird can be found in a forest floor still life by the Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619/20–1678) in the collection of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau.1
1 Oil on canvas, 52 x 39 cm.; G. Seelig, Medusa's Menagerie, Otto Marseus van Schriek and the Scholars, exh. cat., Munich 2017, p. 58, reproduced in colour fig. 40.
Additional Notices & Disclaimers
Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.
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