Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht 1616 - 1680 Amsterdam)
A Portrait of a Gentleman standing by a Red Curtain
oil on canvas
108 x 87,6 cm
Signed and dated 'Bol fec./1661’, lower right
SOLD IN 2021 TO THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BUDAPEST.
Provenance
Sulley & Co. London;
With Knoedler, New York (no. 10884), by 1905;
Purchased by Charles Alvah Walker, Boston, December 1909;
Purchased by Miss E. A. Cotton, until 1910;
Mrs. Charles Prince, New Hampshire, until 1959;
Giovanni Castano, Boston, 1959;
Purchased by a private collection, Newton, Massachusetts, by October 1964;
By descent to a Private Collection, USA.
Literature
Blankert, A., Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680): Rembrandt's Pupil, Doornspijk 1982, pp. 62, 134, cat. no. 109, reproduced plate 118.