Jacob de Graeff (1642-90). In the Uniform of an Officer

Jacob de Graeff (1642-90). In the Uniform of an Officer

SK-A-3963

Portret van Jacob de Graeff, in officiersuniform. Kniestuk, staande tussen een zuil en een tafel waarop zijn hoed ligt. Zijn rechterhand steunend op een wandelstok.

• signature: ‘GTB’
• coat of arms, bottom right: ‘Gevierendeeld: I en IV in rood een omgekeerde schop. II en III in zwart een rood gekapte valk.’

painter: Gerard ter Borch (II) (signed by artist)

1670 - 1681

oil on panel

• height 52.5 cm x width 34.5 cm
• depth 8.2 cm

Public domain

Inv.; sale, Jean Sauphar, Lair-Dubreuil, Mannheim, et al., Paris (Hotel Drouot), 17 (18) June 1930 sqq., no. 15, frs. 138,000, to the dealer John Levy, New York;{Copy RKD.} the dealer John Levy, New York, 1934;…; consigned by unknown collector to the dealer P. Cassirer, Amsterdam, December 1938;{Note RMA.} from whom, fl. 30,000, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, 7 September 1940 (inv. no. 1341);{Schwarz 2004, p. 107, no. III/23.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945 (inv. no. NK 2351);{Provenance from 1874 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; the Munich Central Collecting Point number 1537/2 is recorded in black ink on the reverse of the panel.} on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1376); transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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