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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 2, 2025 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 15 | $****** - ****** | Four studies of a man"s head | |||
Jan 31, 1997 | Christie's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings | 29 | $****** - ****** | Four studies of Man's head |
paintings
48.3 x 65.1 cm (19 x 25.63 in)
oil on panel
(Probably) Jean Joseph Verellen (1788-1856); his sale (†), Ter Bruggen, Antwerp, 15 September 1856 (=1st day), lot 79, as "Le même [J. Jordaens]. Quatre têtes de bergers se détachant vigoureusement sur un ciel clair. Belle peinture où se retrouvent toutes les éminentes qualités du peintre célèbre".
Anonymous sale [Collection d"un Amateur Hollandais]; Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 27 November 1917, lot 12.
with Asscher, Koetser & Welker, Amsterdam and London.
Richard Strauss, Paris and Munich.
with Dr. R. van Rees, Utrecht.
with Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, by 1940 (according to RKD Research Files), and until at least Autumn 1978.
with A. Edelstein, London.
with E.V. Thaw & Co., New York.
Private collection, U.S.A.
with Bob Haboldt, Paris, by 1991.
Anonymous sale [Property from a Private Collection]; Christie"s, New York, 31 January 1997, lot 29.
with Noortman Master Paintings BV, Amsterdam, where acquired on 4 April 2000 by the father of the present owners.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678 , 29 November 1968-5 January 1969, no. 24 (lent by Mr. Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam).
(Probably) M. Rooses, Jacob Jordaens: His Life and Work , London and New York, 1908, p. 267, as "Four heads of Shepherds. Sale - Verellen, Antwerp, 1856, 49 cm by 64 cm".
L. van Puyvelde, Jordaens , Brussels, 1953, pp. 84 and 209.
M. Jaffé, Jordaens , exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, 1968, pp. 67, 83 and 263, no. 24, illustrated.
"Advert - Bernard Houthakker", The Art Quarterly , I, no. 4, Autumn 1978.
R.-A. d"Hulst, Jacob Jordaens , London, 1982, pp. 90, 331, notes 4 and 368.
N. de Poorter and R.-A. d"Hulst, Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, 1993, I, p. 120, note 6.
JACOB JORDAENS (ANTWERP 1593-1678)
Four studies of a man"s head
oil on panel
19 x 25 5/8 in. (48.3 x 65.1 cm.)
