Lot 151: Philips de Koninck (Amsterdam 1619-1688)

Philips de Koninck (Amsterdam 1619-1688)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a black mantle with a lace collar and cuffs, his hat and gloves on the table behind him
signed and dated 'P_. Koninck 1656' (centre left)
oil on canvas
38½ x 33 in. (97.8 x 83.8 cm.)

Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, 22 December 1928-6 January 1929 and Amsterdam, Galerie Goudstikker, 12 January-28 February 1929, Collection de Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, Goudstikker exhibition catalogue 36, no. 36, illustrated.
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1960-2008, inv. no. 9140.

H. Gerson, Philips Koninck: Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung de Holländischen Malerei des XVII Jahrhunderts, Berlin, pp. 49 and 125, no. 217.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Katalog der Gemäldegalerie: Holländische Malerei des 15., 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Wien, 1972, p. 51.
K. Demus, ed., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien: Verzeichnis der Gamälde, Wien, 1973, p. 96, pl. 109, as possibly a portrait of a member of the van Schooten family.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau, 1983, III, p. 1542, no. 1030, illustrated, as possibly a portrait of a member of the van Schooten family.
S. Ferino-Pagden et al., Die Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorisches Museums in Wien: Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna, 1991, pl. 538, p. 74, as possibly a portrait of a member of the van Schooten family.

Private collection, Delft; (+), Roos & Roos, Amsterdam, 14 March 1882, lot 107.
Van den Burch, The Hague; C. Van Doorn en Zoon, The Hague, 22 November 1886, lot 2 (50 florijns).
Mrs. Mesdag van Calcar, The Hague.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, from whom confiscated by the Nazi authorities in July 1940.
Dr. Sigmund Berchthold, Vienna.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1960-2008 (inv. no. 9140).
Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker in October 2008.

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On the strength of the strong resemblance between the sitter in this and in two other portraits by Philips de Koninck, Sumowski notes the possibility that the sitter of the present lot might have been a member of the van Schooten family, and the sitters in the other portraits (one on the Dutch art market, the other untraced, both illustrated by Sumowski) his brothers (loc. cit.).