LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.31 in. (89.70 cm.) (height) by 27.95 in. (71.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

H. van Hall, Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, repertorium , Amsterdam, 1963, p. 24, no. 2, as ‘Cornelis de Bisschop’. H.-J. Raupp, Untersuchungen zu Künstlerbildnis und Künstlerdarstellung in den Niederlanden im 17. Jahrhundert , Hildesheim, 1984, pp 230-31, 451, fig. 136, as ‘Cornelis de Bisschop’

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 4 December 1912, lot 152, as ‘Cornelis de Bisschop’: ‘Remarquable portrait d’une notation tres personnelle. Le clair-obscur parait avoir un grand attrait pour le maitre’ (Possibly) with Jacques Goudstikker as ‘Cornelis de Bisschop’. with Walter Paech, Amsterdam, 1936, as ‘Delft School’: ‘Een schilderij grootsch van opvatting en uitvoering, onder merkbaren invloed van Vermeer van Delft’ Acquired by the great-grandfather of the present owners before 1937