£2,000 - £3,000
ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB VAN LOO, SLUIS, 1614 - 1670, PARIS, A 17TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS
Portrait of a laughing boy in an arch window, held in a 18th Century carved giltwood frame, relined.
(sight 61cm x 74cm, frame 78.5cm x 81cm)
N.B. verso bearing various pencil marks and numbers to stretcher and frame indicative of 18th and 19th Century Continental auction house sales. Also found on the stretcher in pencil an earlier given attribution to ’A.Cuyp’; Aelbert Cuyp, 1620 - 1691, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Current research indicates the earliest known engraved version of this composition is known as “Laughing Boy with a Cat in his Arms’ and is fully given to Jacob van Loo. Nagler 24, Le Blanc 26, Hollstein 8 I, It is possible the boy portrayed is one of Van Loo’s own sons, and the same model can also be seen in ‘A Lady With A Parrot and a Young Man With A Flute’ sold by Dorotheum, Lot 72, 8th June 2021
Provenance: the estate of a Dutch lady, West Country, England, by family repute believed acquired via Anton Mak Kunst en Antiekveilingen, Dordrecht, Circa 1947/8
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