Thomas de Keyser

Portrait of Constantijn Huygens



Thomas de Keyser - Portrait of Constantijn Huygens



Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of Constantijn Huygens
1627
92.4 x 69.3 cm
Oil on panel
Signed on the front of the chimney-piece_TDK AN 1627 (TDK in monogram)
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 215-216, plate 184
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 361

Literature
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2016], fig. 218
Stephanie S. Dickey (ed.), Rembrandt and his circle, Amsterdam, 2017, fig. 3.4
Larry Silver, Rembrandt's Holland, London, 2018, fig. 36
Christopher White, Anthony van Dyck & the art of portraiture, London, 2021, fig. 190
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 300



Provenance

most probably the full-length portrait of Constantijn Huygens with his clerk or page which was in the inventory of possessions of Huygens's last direct descendant, Susanna Louisa Huygens, widow of Baron Willem van Wassenaer van Ruyven, who died in The Hague in December 1785
collection of Anna Maria Ebeling, wife of Jonkheer Paul Iwan Hogguer, who died in 1812
Anna Maria Ebeling sale, Amsterdam, 18 sqq. August 1817, nr. 37, bought by Coders
John Webb sale, London, 30-31 May 1821, nr. 145), bought by Simmons
Richard Simmons
National Gallery, London, Richard Simmons Bequest, 1847
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External links

RKD 165071
National Gallery, London Accession number NG212

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