Haensbergen, Johan van (attr.)

Description:

Utrecht 1642 - Den Haag 1705
110 x 86 cm
Portrait of a gentleman in a brown morning gown as half-length figure sitting in a recliner. Oil/canvas, relined, verso on the frame fragmentarily preserved old label of a sale with numbering 49.
Old German aristocratic property. The label on the frame verso, preserved in fragments, refers to the auction at J.M. Heberle (H. Lempertz ' Söhne) in Cologne 1902: "Katalog der vortrefflichen Gemälde alter Meister, vorwiegend aus der Sammlung des Herrn Ewald Friedrich Grafen von Hertzberg, Königl. Preuss Geh. Staats- und Cabinets-Minister Friedrichs des Gr. (...)". Listed there under no. 49 and indicated as "J.H.S. fec. Ao. 1698". This inscription is no longer visible today.