Old Master and 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

Old Master and 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 23. Portrait of a young man, here identified as Dirck van Beresteyn (1627–1653), seated in his study.

Gerrit Dou

Portrait of a young man, here identified as Dirck van Beresteyn (1627–1653), seated in his study

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Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gerrit Dou

Leiden 1613–1675

Portrait of a young man, here identified as Dirck van Beresteyn (1627–1653), seated in his study


signed lower right on the book: GDOV (GD in ligature)

oil on single-plank oak panel

unframed: 31 x 23.7 cm.; 12¼ x 9⅜ in.

framed: 49 x 41.5 cm.; 19¼ x 16⅜ in.

Lt-Col. Bertrand Joseph Russell, D.S.O. (1876–1960);

By whose Executors sold (‘The Property of Lt-Col. Hon. Bertrand Russell, D.S.O., dec’d.’) London, Sotheby's, 16 November 1960, lot 168 (as Domenicus van Tol);

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 8 July 2014, lot 408 (as follower of Gerrit Dou);

Private collection, Germany, by 2014.

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