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Lot no. 1518
Nicolaes Maes Bildnis eines Jungen mit Hund und Vogel Öl auf Leinwand (doubliert). 58 x 47 cm. Signiert unten links: MAES. Provenienz H. de Beaumont Randolph, Yate House, Gloucestershire. - Auktion Christie's, London, 5.3.1920, Lot 125 (für 180 guinees an „Abrahams”). - Mrs. Mildmay-White, 1970 (verso Klebeetikett der Ausstellung in Plymouth). – Auktion Sotheby's, New York, 12.1.1989 Lot 40. – Rheinische Privatsammlung. Ausstellungen „Art treasures from Westcountry Collections”, City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, 20.8.-30.9.1970, Nr. 21. Nicolaes Maes war um 1648 Lehrling in der Amsterdamer Werkstatt von Rembrandt. Dementsprechend stehen seine ersten Jahre als freier Meister ab etwa 1653/54 noch ganz unter dessen Einfluss. Seit 1660 wandte er sich vornehmlich der Bildnismalerei zu, wobei sich auch sein Stil durch ein reicheres Kolorit und eine zunehmend elegante Darstellungsweise wandelte. Insbesondere für die Darstellung von Kindern gelangen ihm ebenso charmante wie repräsentative Lösungen, die ihn zu einem der überzeugendsten Maler von Kinderbildnissen nicht nur innerhalb der niederländischen Kunst werden ließen. Unser prachtvolles Portrait eines kleinen Jungen, dessen Identität bislang nicht geklärt werden konnte, reiht sich ein in eine Serie von Darstellungen aus der reifen Schaffensphase des Künstlers, die durch die kraftvolle Modellierung und die satten Farben gekennzeichnet sind. Sehr vergleichbar in Komposition und Gestik des Dargestellten sind ein Gemälde im Kölner Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (vgl. Ekkehard Mai (Hg.): Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Köln 1993, Nr. 69, S. 174, mit Abb.) sowie ein 1999 in London versteigertes Bild (Christie`s, 16.4.1999, Lot 61). Bei beiden Gemälden taucht auch der weiß-braune Spaniel wieder auf, vor dessen Zugriff das Kind einen Vogel schützt. Nicolaes Maes Portrait of a Boy with a Dog and a Bird Oil on canvas (relined). 58 x 47 cm. Signed lower left: MAES. Provenance H. de Beaumont Randolph, Yate House, Gloucestershire. - Auctioned by Christie's, London, 5.3.1920, lot 125 (for 180 guinees to „Abrahams”). - Mrs. Mildmay-White, 1970 (with the label of an exhibition in Plymouth to the reverse). – Auctioned by Sotheby's, New York, 12.1.1989, lot 40. – Private collection, Rhineland. Exhibitions „Art treasures from Westcountry Collections”, City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, 20.8.-30.9.1970, no. 21. Nicolaes Maes was an apprentice in Rembrandt's Amsterdam workshop around 1648, and in his first years as a free master in 1653/54 his style was still heavily indebted to that of his master. Around 1600 he began to devote himself almost entirely to portrait painting, and at this time his style moved towards an ever more vivid use of colour and an increasingly elegant form of depicting figures. In his children's portraits he was able to achieve results that were both charming and representative, which gained him a reputation as one of the most convincing painters of children's portraits both in the Netherlands and in general. This fine portrait of a small boy, who as yet remains unidentified, is one of a group of works representative of the artist's later style, which was dominated by powerful modelling and vivid colours. A work kept in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne is similar to the present in composition and gesture (cf. Ekkehard Mai (ed.): Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Cologne 1993, no. 69, p. 174, illus.), as is a work sold by Christie's in 1999 (Christie`s, 16.4.1999, lot 61). Both pieces depict the same brown and white Spaniel, and here the child is shown protecting a bird from its attentions.
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