Lot 340: Philips Koninck (Amsterdam 1619-1688)

Philips Koninck (Amsterdam 1619-1688)
Portrait of Professor Franciscus van Schooten, half-length, holding a pocket watch
indistinctly signed and dated '**k 1656' (center left)
oil on canvas
40 x 34½ in. (102.5 x 87.5 cm.)

Amsterdam, Jacques Goudstikker Gallery, Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, October-November 1928, no. 20, as 'Portrait presumed to be Schooten'.
Munich, Alte Pinakothek, Selections from Schloss Rohoncz, late 1929-1930, no. 181, as 'Portrait of a gentleman'.

H. Gerson, Philips Koninck, Berlin, 1935, pp. 49, 125, no. 218, fig. 22.
W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17.Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1948, II, no. 681.

Property from a Delft family collection; Roos & Roos, Amsterdam, 14 March 1882, lot 109 (unsold).
Messrs. van der Burch collection; sale, C. Van Doorn en Zoon, The Hague, 22 November 1886, lot 1 (20 fl).
Frau Taco Mesdag van Calcar, The Hague.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1928.
Baron H. Thyssen-Bornemisza, Schloss Rohoncz, by 1935.
with Sala Pares, Barcelona, by 1963.
with Jack Kilgore, New York, by 1994.