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Property from the Estate of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Gerard ter Borch

Portrait of Pieter de Graeff

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Gerard ter Borch

Zwolle 1617 - 1681 Deventer

Portrait of Pieter de Graeff


charged upper center with the sitter's arms

oil on copper

copper: 14 ⅛ by 11 ⅛ in.; 35.9 by 28.3 cm

framed: 24 ¼ by 21 ¾ in.; 61.6 by 55.2 cm

Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707), Amsterdam;

Thence by descent to his children, Agneta (1663-1725); Cornelis II (1671-1719); and Jan (1673-1714), Amsterdam (inv. 1709, no. 130a; inv. 1710 no. 4a);

Jacob Antony van Dam;

Offered at his estate sale, Dordrecht, H. Verhoeff, 1 June 1829, lot 134, where unsold;

L. Vincent;

His anonymous estate sale, Rotterdam, A. Lamme, 9 August 1842, lot 67;

With Kunsthandel J.R. Bier, Haarlem;

With Koetser Gallery, London, 1946;

Colonel King, Capetown, until 1959;

With Brod Galleries, London, 1959-1960;

K.L. Sander, Bloemendaal, 1960-1963;

With Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, by 1975;

From whom acquired, 2018.

C.H. de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1913, vol. V, pp. 80-81, cat. no. 230;

S.J. Gudlaugsson, Gerard Ter Borch, The Hague 1959, p. 387, reproduced fig. 263;

S.J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard Ter Borchs, The Hague 1960, pp. 226-227, cat. no. 263;

PICTURA 1977: Collectie schilderjien en acquarellen van 1600 tot heden, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1977, p. 20, reproduced;

G. Korevaar and G. Tauber, "Gerard ter Borch Repeats: On Autograph Portrait Copies in the Work of Ter Borch (1617-1681)," in Rijksmuseum Bulletin 4 (2014), p. 365;

C. Piccoli, Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707) and His treffelyke bibliotheek: Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space, Leiden 2025, p. 23, reproduced fig. 2.7.