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Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639-1689 Paris)

Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a lace cravat and embroidered jacket with the Order of the Saint-Esprit

Closed24 April 2009

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GBP 73,250

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Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639-1689 Paris)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a lace cravat and embroidered jacket with the Order of the Saint-Esprit
oil on canvas, oval
28¾ x 23¾ in. (73 x 60.4 cm.)

Friedrich Viktor von Friedländer-Fuld (1858-1917), Berlin, by 1909, and by inheritance to
Milly Antonie von Friedländer-Fuld (1866-1943), as a 'Portrait of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, called the maréchal de Soubise (1715-1787)' by 'Hyacinthe Rigaud', by whom moved to Amsterdam in 1939, and from whom confiscated in 1941 by
The Sammelverwaltung Feindlicher Hausgeräte, The Hague; sale, Van Marle & Bignell, The Hague, 27 January 1942, lot 64, as 'H. Rigaud', purchased for NLG 3,800 by F.P. van Wieringen, by whom sold to the following
with H.A.J. Stenger, The Hague, as 'Hyacinthe Rigaud', by whom sold to
J.C. Blaupot ten Cate, by whom sold to the following
with Katz, Dieren.
with C.F.E. Schmidt, Berlin, when acquired in 14 August 1944 for the planned Führermuseum, Linz.
Transferred at the end of the Second World War to the Sichting Nederlands Kunstbezirk (SNK), as 'Jacob Ferdinand Voet'.
Restituted to the heirs of M.A. von Friedländer-Fuld, 2004.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Professor Francesco Petrucci for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs, and for noting that the portrait could be a rare product of Voet's French period, 1684-9.