詳情
FLEMISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1615
Portrait of a merchant jeweller, half-length, in a black doublet, with an assay scale
oil on canvas
35 x 2634 in. (88.9 x 67.9 cm.)
來源
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 30 September 2005, lot 44, as 'Flemish School, c. 1620' (pre-restoration, shown holding a letter).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 December 2009, lot 132, as 'School of Haarlem, circa 1620' (pre-restoration, shown holding a letter).
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Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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拍品專文

In this striking portrait, a gentlemen dressed in a cassock of rich black silk stands by a delicate assay balance, suggesting the nature of his trade as either a merchant in gold or silver or an essayeur. Wearing a rare example of a starched double collar, largely out of fashion by 1615 and typically seen in The Hague and on occasion in Amsterdam, his tight sleeves and belt are consistent with this dating, suggesting a likely date of execution. The artist, though unknown, shows certain stylistic affinities with Flemish portrait painters of the first years of the seventeenth century and may have been an emigré to the northern Netherlands, where he likely painted this portrait.

He is depicted with the tools of his trade, which evidently provided much financial success, holding a nugget of precious mental with an ornamented pair of tweezers, and weighing it accurately with an ornate lifting mechanism that worked by means of a counterpoise, seen here in the form of a lion (see J. M. Shannon and G. C. Shannon, The Assay Balance: Its Evolution and the Histories of the Companies that Made Them, Lakewood, 1999).

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