Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam? 1596/97-1667 Amsterdam, Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a black coat and white lace collar, with a skull

signed with monogram and dated 'TDK ANO 1628.' oil on panel  20¾ x 15½ in. 52.7 x 39.4 cm. Estimate $40,000 - $60,000

Provenance: Private collection, The Netherlands, 1930.
with Asscher and Welker, London, 1931.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1972, lot 48.
with Alan Jacobs Gallery, London.
Stanley M. Hanfling, M.D., California, 1973.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1988, lot 92.

Literature: Art News, vol. 72, Summer 1973, p. 17, illustrated.
A. Adams, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser 1596/7-1667: A study of portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1985, p. 46, no. 19.

Exhibited: London, Alan Jacobs Gallery, The Golden Age, Spring Exhibition 1973, Fine XVII century Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, 1973, pp. 26-27, illustrated.

Notes: The present painting is to be included in the forthcoming monograph on de Keyser currently in preparation by Ann Jensen Adams.

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