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Thomas de Keyser

(Holland, 1596-1665)
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800 000 - 1 000 000 SEK
70 700 - 88 300 EUR
72 900 - 91 100 USD
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Johan Jinnerot
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Thomas de Keyser
(Holland, 1596-1665)

Portrait of a young man, full-length, in a black costume and har, standing amongst classic sculptures

Signed TDK and dated 1648. Panel 71 x 56 cm.

Provenance

Hendrick Bredeman; his sale; Philippus van der Schley and others, Amsterdam, 1 July 1788, lot 91, as T. de Keyzer to Fouquet (Dfl 18).
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1926.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1945.
in the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Exhibitions

The Hague, Schilderkundig Genootschap Pulchri Studio, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 13 March-4 April 1926, no. 86, illustrated.
Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 10 April 1926, no. 53, illustrated.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pictures looted from Holland and returned through the efforts of the U.S. Armed Forces, October 1947, no. 22, illustrated, as 'Attributed to Thomas de Keyser, but probably by Michael Sweerts'.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Drie eeuwen portret in Nederland 1500-1800, 1952.
's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbarbants museum; Heino, Kasteeel het Nijenhuis; and Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Herinneringen aan Italië. Kunst en toerisme in de 18de eeuw, 1984, p. 98, cat. no. 1, illustated, p. 84.
Groningen, Groninger Museum voor stad en lande, on loan.

Literature

C. Wright, Paintings in Dutch Museums. An Index of Oil Paintings in Public Collections in The Netherlands by Artists born before 1870, London, 1980, p. 211.
A. Adams Jensen, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser (1596/7-1667). A Study of Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, Cambridge, 1985, III, p. 145, no. 83.
Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), The Hague, 1992, p. 160, no. 1318, illustrated.
B. Schwarz, Hitlers Museum. Die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz: Dokumente zum 'Führermuseum', Vienna/Cologne/Weimar, 2004, p. 107, p. 225, no. III/19c.