Lot 82: Jan de Baen (Haarlem 1633-1702) Portrait of a young boy with a falcon standing beside a young girl and a younger boy holding a hare, both seated in a landscape

Portrait of a young boy with a falcon standing beside a young girl and a younger boy holding a hare, both seated in a landscape
signed and dated 'Bane/1683' (centre left)
oil on canvas
128 x 105cm (50 3/8 x 41 5/16in).

PROVENANCE:
Sale, H.G. Tersteeg, The Hague, May, 1914, lot 138
With Gallery J.R. Bier, Haarlem, 1938
Purchased from Gallery D. de Reyer, The Hague, 1951, and thence by descent to the present owner

Although a pupil of Jacob Adriaensz. de Backer (1608-1651) de Baen is not generally considered to belong to the Rembrandt School. However, his later portraits do recall the work of Phillips Koninck (1619-1688).