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Lot 1087 Dα

Nicolaes Maes - Portrait of a Gentleman Portrait of a Lady

Auction 1108 - overview Cologne
16.05.2018, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Sculpture
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 14.880 € (incl. premium)

Nicolaes Maes

Portrait of a Gentleman Portrait of a Lady

Oil on canvas (relined). Each 40.5 x 31.5 cm.
Each sigend lower right: NMaes (N and M inligature).

These two elegant oval portraits can be dated to Nicolaes Maes' later period, as indicated by the "monogram" style of the signature (León Krempel: Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes, Petersberg 2000, p. 28). Two highly comparable portraits of a lady and a gentleman can be found in the Mayer van den Bergh Museum in Antwerp (cf. Krempel, ibid., illus. nos. 288 and 289).

Certificate

Walther Bernt, Munich, 11.1.1972 (each painting with a separate expertise).

Provenance

Auction Ruef, Munich, 22.-24.3.1972, lot 3277. - Private Collection, South Germany.