LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

29.61 in. (75.20 cm.) (height) by 48.11 in. (122.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed on the inside of the virginal: OMNI SPIRITUS LAUDET DOMI

Literature:

Weltkunst, vol. XIII, no. 9, 5 March 1939, reproduced p. 6, in an advertisement for Carl Eugen Pongs auction house (as Thomas de Keyser);. De Jonckheere, Tableaux de maitres flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Catalogue for the Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris 1994, cat. no. 47, reproduced, and also on the front cover (as Anthonie Palamedesz.); . F. Laarmann, Families in beeld. De ontwikkeling van het Noord-Nederlandse familieportret in de eerste helft van de zecventiende eeuw, Hilversum 2002, pp. 68-69, p. 84, cat. no. B 15, reproduced p. 69, fig. 25 (as Anthonie Palamedesz.).

Provenance:

Max Weil, Düsseldorf (confiscated by the National Socialists before 1939);. Finanzamt Düsseldorf;. Sale, Düsseldorf, Eugen Pongs, 23 March 1939, lot 17, detailed ' nicht arischer Besitz' (as Thomas de Keyser);. Acquired at the above sale by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (inv. no. 20897);. Restituted to Max Weil on the 23 August 1950;. Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 22 April 1994, lot 5, for £90,000 (as Anthonie Palamedesz.);. With Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, in November 1994 (as Anthonie Palamedesz.).