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3027

Willem Key

Breda 1516 – 1568 Antwerp

Portrait of a man with a red beard. 1558

Oil on oak. 40 x 29,8 cm (15 ¾ x 11 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Willem Key. Portrait of a man with a red beard. 1558.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 16,700

 

- 22,300

Sold for:

72,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on oak. 40 x 29,8 cm (15 ¾ x 11 ¾ in.). Dated on the right next to the head: 1558 / on the reverse in blue pen: 21266. J. G. 31. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Max J. Friedländer, Berlin, dated 12 December 1929, "für das vielleicht W. Key als Autor in Betracht kommt“ (in the original). Framed

In a northern Italian Renaissance frame with Sgraffitti, circa 1540/60 (55 x 43 cm). We would like to thank Koenraad Jonckheere, Gent, for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs..

1929 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / 1965 collection Frieda Hinze, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin

1959–1984 loan to the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster

Koenraad Jonckheere: Willem Key (1516–1568). Portrait of a Humanist Painter, 2011, Part II - Catalogue of the oeuvre of Willem Key, p. 78, cat. no. A18, with ill. / Reinhard Müller-Mehlis: Qualität in der Favoritenrolle. 10. Deutsche Kunst- und Antiquitätenmesse, in: Handelsblatt, 29/30 October 1965 (in the article, Hinze names the subject as Pieter Breughel the Elder)