Lot 7: Karel van der Pluym (Leiden 1625-1672)

Karel van der Pluym (Leiden 1625-1672)
A man, bust-length, holding a cane and his spectacles, by a wooden ledge
oil on panel
22¼ x 17 in. (56.5 x 43.2 cm.)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rembrandt: Collection des oeuvres du maître réunies à l'occasion de l'inauguration de S.M. la Reine Wilhelmine au Musée de la Ville à Amsterdam, 1898, no. 73, as Rembrandt.
Paris, musée du Jeu de Paume, Exposition retrospective des grands et des petits maîtres hollandais du XVIIe siècle, 1911, no. 113, as Rembrandt.

W.A. von Bode and C. Hofstede de Groot, The complete work of Rembrandt: History, description and heliographic reproduction of all the master's pictures with a study of his life and his art, Paris, 1897-1906, V, p. 126, no. 358; illustrated, as Rembrandt.
W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt: Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart, 1908, p. 332, illustrated, as 'Rembrandt, c. 1650, Adriaen'.
A. Dayot, Grands et petits maîtres hollandais du XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1912, p. 145, no. 125, illustrated, as Rembrandt.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné, etc., London, VI, 1916, pp. 225-6, no. 426, as 'Rembrandt, c. 1650, Typ, den man Rembrandts Bruder nennt'.
A. Bredius, 'Ein letztes Wort an Dr. Valentiner', Kunstchronik, 1922, p. 391.
A. Bredius, 'Karel van der Pluym, neef en leerling van Rembrandt', Oud Holland, XLVIII, 1931, pp. 251 and 256, fig. 10.
A. Bredius, 'Pluym, Karel van der', in U. Thieme, F. Becker and H. Vollmer, eds., Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, XXVII, Leipzig, 1933, p. 164.
W. Sumowski, 'Nachträge zum Rembrandtjahr 1956', Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, II, 1957, p. 236.
R. Hamann and W. Sumowski, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Berlin, 1969, p. 438 note 1.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau, IV, 1983, p. 2365, under no. 1593.
H. Adams, 'If Not Rembrandt Then His Cousin?', The Art Bulletin, LXVI, September 1984, pp. 436-8.

(Probably) Charles Tottenham Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely (1738-1806), and by descent.
Anonymous sale [A Nobleman, In whose Family they have been for the greater part of a Century, on who parts from them having disposed of his Town Mansion]; George Stanley, no. 21 Old Bond Street, London, 13 May 1830, lot 60, as Rembrandt, 'A pair of Portraits; an Old Man holding Spectacles, and a Woman holding a Book' (unsold? at 175 gns.). John Henry Loftus, 5th Marquess of Ely (1851-1925), Loftus Hall, County Wexford, Ireland; Christie's, London, 25 July 1891, lot 33, as Rembrandt, 'An old Man' (250 gns. to Casella), sold consecutively with its pendant, lot 32, Rembrandt, 'An old Woman' (also acquired by Casella) both illustrated in the catalogue.
with Colnaghi, London.
Jules Porgès (1838-1921), financier and celebrated collector, Paris
Vicomte de Canson de la Lombardire, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Stuker, Bern, 22 November 1979, lot 2698, as 'Rembrandt, Adriaen van Rijn'.

PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Karel van der Pluym (Leiden 1625-1672)
A man, bust-length, holding a cane and his spectacles, by a wooden ledge
oil on panel
22¼ x 17 in. (56.5 x 43.2 cm.)