Lot 80: Anthoon Schoonjans , Antwerp 1655 - Vienna 1726 Self-portrait of the artist, half length, wearing a black hat oil on canvas

oil on canvas

measurements note 81 by 63 cm.; 31 7/8 by 24 3/4 in.

This self-portrait is known in two other versions: the first (perhaps the prime original) is in the Staatsgalerie in Schleitheim (see J. de Maere, Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters, vol. II, Brussels 1994, p. 1046, reproduced). A third autograph version was sold Paris, Millon & Associés, 18 March 2002, lot 22, for 25,000 Euros.