Current Location: Gallery 15: Dutch Gallery
Titles
Portrait of a boy, three quarter length, holding a hat
Maker(s)
Ostade, Adriaen van
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Description
Portrait of an unidentified boy, three quarter length from the left, head slight turned to the left, dressed in black with a white collar and a grey-blue over-garment, holding a black hat in his right hand against a plain background
Notes
History note: Probably Renaud‐César de Choiseul‐Praslin, 2nd duc de Choiseul (1735‐1791), and by inheritance to his second son; César‐Hippolyte de Choiseul‐Praslin (1757‐1793), Paris; his sale, A.J. Paillet, Paris, Rue de Lille, 18 February 1793, lot 60 (Deux petits Tableaux srappans de vérité & de plus beau fini; ils représentent les portraits des deux fils de cet Artiste, vus à mi‐corps dans des habillemens noirs, la tête découverte, & ajustés de larges colets de batiste, selon le costume du tems. Haut. 7 p. 6 lig. larg. 5 p. 6 lig.B.) (1,001 francs to Haudry); François-Pascal Haudry (1718-1800), his sale, Orleans, France, 4 August 1800, lots 108 and 109; Jason‐Robert de Saint‐Victor (1738‐1822); his posthumous sale, Le Brun, Paris, rue de Gros‐Chenet, 26 November 1822, lot 187 (1,205 francs to Lafontaine); With Pierre‐Joseph Lafontaine (1758‐1835), Paris; Probably Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, K.G. (1786‐1880), Frant Court, Tonbridge Wells, Kent and by inheritance to his eldest, but last surviving child, the Hon. Louisa Charlotte Canning (1829‐1908), Frant Court; Christie’s, 26 May 1906, lots 124 and 123 (180 and 240 guineas respectively to Wertheimer);
With Asher Wertheimer, London, from whom acquired by Adolph Hirsch, and by inheritance through his widow, Mrs George Cornwallis‐West (1878‐1972) and their daughter, Mrs Richard Pinto, to her son George Pinto (1929‐2018).
Legal notes
Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government from the estate of George Pinto and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019, received 2020
