Live Auction 2835European Noble and Private Collections
A WAX RELIEF PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
Lot 139 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A WAX RELIEF PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN

DUTCH, CIRCA 1697

Closed16 December 2009

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EUR 1,125

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A WAX RELIEF PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
DUTCH, CIRCA 1697
The red wax mounted on a slate plaque set in a later glazed ebonized frame, restorations
13.4 x 10.1 cm. (the slate plaque)

Specialist note

By repute this is the portrait of a member of the Mensma family, the reverse inscribed with a text concerning the restoration in 1959, stating that the restorer found initials and date engraved in the slate GM 1697 AG