Live Auction 1986Important Old Master Paintings Part I And Part II
Jacob van Oost I Bruges 1603-1671
Lot 338

Jacob van Oost I Bruges 1603-1671

Portrait of a boy as Saint John the Baptist

Closed15 April 2008

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Jacob van Oost I Bruges 1603-1671
Portrait of a boy as Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
28¼ x 22 7/8 in. 71.8 x 58.1 cm.

Anonymous sale, Jacques Vlietynck, Bruges, 10 May 1728, lot 135.
Private collection, The Netherlands.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2006, lot 260.

Specialist note

When Dr. Jean Luc Meulemeester first published this work in his 1984 monograph on van Oost he knew of the work from documents only. Since then, Dr. Meulemeester has seen the painting first hand and confirmed the attribution (loc. cit.), dating it to the 1630s.