Nicolaes Maes

Portrait of a boy with a bullfinch and a spaniel

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8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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8,000 GBP

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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff

Nicolaes Maes

Dordrecht 1634–1693 Amsterdam

Portrait of a boy with a bullfinch and a spaniel

oil on canvas, in a painted oval

unframed: 44.5 x 32 cm.; 17½ x 12⅝ in.

framed: 55.4 x 43.7 cm.; 21¾ x 17¼ in.

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 30 May 1979, lot 268;

With The Leger Galleries, London, from 1979;

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1993;

Thence by descent.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, on long-term loan, until 2025.

B. Schaefer, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1993, p. 174, no. 69, reproduced in colour p. 175;

'Gesichter mit rosigen Wangen, in vergnügtem Spiel – wir lieben sie', in Baroque: das Magazin für Barockes, no. 1, 2018, p. 40, reproduced in colour.

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