Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Adriaen Thomasz Key
Portrait of a bearded man, bust-length, wearing a white ruff
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Adriaen Thomasz Key
Antwerp circa 1544–after 1589
Portrait of a bearded man, bust-length, wearing a white ruff
oil on canvas, transferred from panel
unframed: 34.8 x 26 cm.; 13¾ x 10¼ in.
framed: 55.9 x 48 cm.; 22 x 18⅞ in.
Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 9 December 1984, lot 562 (as Adriaen Thomasz. Key);
Where acquired by the father of the present owner.
K. Jonckheere, Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545–c. 1589). Portrait of a Calvinist painter, Turnhout 2007, pp. 141 and 329, no. B12, reproduced (as possibly by Adriaen Thomasz. Key, present whereabouts unknown).
We are grateful to Koenraad Jonckheere for endorsing the attribution to Adriaen Thomasz. Key on the basis of digital images.
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