SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577–1640 ANTWERP) AND STUDIO - photo 1
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SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577–1640 ANTWERP) AND STUDIO

Lot 19
06.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 19 | SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577–1640 ANTWERP) AND STUDIO
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577–1640 ANTWERP)

AND STUDIO

Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter length, in a striped jacket, standing by a table, with a greyhound

oil on panel

41 3/4 x 29 1/8 in. (106 x 74 cm.)





Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 17 February 1960, lot 155, as 'Mierevelt', when acquired by the following,

Alfred Scharf (1900-1965), by whom sold on 14 May 1962 for £900 to the following,

with William Hallsborough Gallery, Piccadilly, London, by whom offered for sale (with the intervention of Wolfgang Burchard),14 June 1962, to the following,

(Probably) Gaston Dulière.

(Possibly) Heinz Kisters (d. 1977), Kreuzlingen, and by inheritance to his wife,

Gerlinde Kisters, Kreuzlingen, c. 1984 (according to an annotation in the RKD, The Hague).

Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 9 April 2014, lot 761, as 'Circle of Peter Paul Rubens' (€32,020).

Art market, UK, where acquired.



Literature

J.M. Hofstede, 'Zur Frühen Bildnismalerei von Peter Paul Rubens', Pantheon, XX, January/February 1962, pp. 285-287, fig. 12 (detail), colour plate.

J.M. Hofstede, 'Höfische ybd burgerliche Damenporträts - Anmerkungen zu Rubens' Antwerpener Bildnismalerei 1609-1620‘, Pantheon, XLI, October-December 1983, p. 315, fig. 10.

M. Jaffé, Catalogo Completo, Rubens, Milan, 1989, p. 172, no. 127, fig. 127.

K. Van Der Stighelen and H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Rubens Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified sitters Painted in Antwerp, XIX (3), London, 2021, pp. 165-165, no. 190, fig. 77.



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Please note that this lot is oil on panel and not as stated in the printed catalogue.
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