NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT 1634-1693 AMSTERDAM) - photo 1
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NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT 1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)

Lot 128
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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ID 1513690
Lot 128 | NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT 1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT 1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)
Portrait of Wigbold Slicher (1627-1718), three-quarter-length, leaning on a window sill, a landscape beyond
signed 'NMAES (lower right, 'NM' in ligature)
oil on canvas
42 3/8 x 36 in. (107.5 x 91.4 cm.)




Provenance

By descent from the sitter to his son,
Antonis Slicher (1655-1745), The Hague, and by descent to his son,
Hieronymus Slicher (1689-1755), and by descent to his son,
Wigbold Slicher (1714-1790), The Hague, the Presiding Judge at the Court of Holland, and through his second wife, Dina Henriette Backer (d. 1801), by inheritance to his eldest son,
Jan Slicher (1745-1815), Burgomaster of The Hague, and possibly by inheritance to his sister,
Anna Catharina Slicher (1739-1827), and probably by descent.
with Wildenstein, New York, by 1951.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 14 January 1993, lot 44.
Private collection, USA.
with Noortman Master Paintings, London and Amsterdam, 1993, where acquired by the father of the present owners.



Literature

E. Moes, Iconographia Batava, Amsterdam, 1905, II, p. 386, no. 7270.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1916, VI, p. 544, no. 264.
R.E.O. Ekkart, 'A Portrait Historie with Venus, Paris and Cupid: Ferdinand Bol and the Patronage of the Spiegel Family', Simiolus, XXIX, no. 1/2, 2002, pp. 17-18, 22, 32-34, no. S1, fig. 4.
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