The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Evening Sale

Michael Sweerts

A young man wearing a turban holding an upturned roemer: the fingernail test

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Michael Sweerts

Brussels 1618–1664 Goa

A young man wearing a turban holding an upturned roemer: the fingernail test

oil on canvas

75 x 58.4 cm.; 29½ x 23 in.

Dr Bruno Kaiser (1877–1941), Berne;

By inheritance in 1941 to the father of the former owner;

By whom anonymously sold ('The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 8 December 1995, lot 34;

When acquired.

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