ANTHONIE PALAMEDESZ

ANTHONIE PALAMEDESZ
(Leith 1602–1673 Amsterdam)Festive company with a lute player.Oil on panel.Signed lower right: A. Palamedes.47.2 × 64.2 cm.

Lot 6089* - ibid160 Old Master Paintings - online only

Provenance:
- With Fred Enneking, Amsterdam, circa 1971.
- Auction Lempertz, Cologne, 6–8 June 1973, lot 193.
- With Bernheimer, Munich, circa 1975.
- Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate.
- Auction Bassenge, Berlin, 28 November 2024, lot 6013.
- European collection.

With a written expert opinion by Dr. Walther Bernt, 1.3.1972.

Oil on panel. Verso with remnants of paper. Paint surface somewhat thin in places, with fine horizontal craquelure and in places with a fine network of craquelure. Slight colour abrasion along the margins.
Under UV light smaller areas of retouching visible on the figures, as well as further areas of retouching on the objects and in the background. Varnish fluoresces unevenly greenish.
Frame: 63.3 × 80 cm.

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