Lot 56: A bearded man reading

Dirk van Hoogstraten (Antwerp 1596-1640 Dordrecht)
A bearded man reading
signed with monogram 'DvH' (upper right)
oil on panel
71.4 x 60.9 cm.

Carl Denner, U.S.A.(?).
with L. Bendix, New York, before 1924.
with D. Katz, Dieren.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 14 May 2002, lot 39.

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Dirk van Hoogstraten was the father and first teacher of Rembrandt's pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten. Only two other signed works by the artist are known, one being the Madonna and Child and Saint Anne, dated 1630, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. A1500).