Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a Man with a Shell
c. 1625-2624 x 17.5 cm
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005
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Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
c. 1625–26
Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
c. 1625–26
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 98
Literature
Norbert Middelkoop (ed.), Rembrandt and Amsterdam portraiture, 1590-1670, Madrid, 2020, fig. 61
Provenance
with Sir George Donaldson, London
Edward Rathbone Bacon, New York, by 1911–died 1915
his estate, 1915–at least 1919
sale, Christie's, London, 19 November 1920, nr. 118, to Duits
with Duits, London, from 1920
with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, in 1926
E.A. Veltman, Bloemendael, The Netherlands
?Frits Lugt, The Hague
with Alfred Brod, London, by 1955–at least 1965
sale, Christie's, London, 10 December 1993, nr. 271, to Naumann
with Otto Naumann, New York, 1993–94, sold to Markus
Frits and Rita Markus, New York, 1994–his death 1996
Rita Markus, New York, 1996–died 2005
Other works by Thomas de Keyser
Cornelis de Graeff with his wife and sons arriving at Soestdijk
Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam
1632
1632
Odysseus and Nausicaa
1657
1657
Portrait of Three Children and a Man
1622
1622
Portrait of Two Woman and a Boy