Jacob Ferdinand Voet Portrait of a gentleman with the Order...

Jacob Ferdinand Voet
Antwerp 1639 – 1689 Paris
Portrait of a gentleman with the Order of the Saint-Esprit

Oil on canvas, an oval
72,6 x 59,2 cm ; 28⅝ by 23¼ in.

We are grateful to Francesco Petrucci for endorsing the attribution of the present portrait to Jacob Ferdinand Voet on the basis of images.

Catalogue Note:
Voet's more compact handling of his paint together with his inclusion of the insignia of the Order of the Holy Spirit, an honour conferred by the King of France, support a dating to the final phase of the artist's career in France (1684-1689). As such, this beautiful portrait is a rare, late work by the artist.

Provenance:
Friedrich Viktor von Friedländer-Fuld (1858–1917), Berlin;

Thence by inheritance to Milly Antonie von Friedländer-Fuld (1866–1943), in 1909 (as by Hyacinthe Rigaud and titled Portrait of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, called the maréchal de Soubise [1715–1787]);

By whom moved to Amsterdam in 1939 and from whom confiscated in 1941 by The Sammelverwaltung Feindlicher Hausgeräte, The Hague;

Anonymous sale, Van Marle & Bignell, The Hague, 27 January 1942, lot 64 (as H. Rigaud);

Where purchased for NLG 3,800 by F.P. van Wieringen;

By whom sold to J.C. Blaupot ten Cate with H.A.J. Stenger, The Hague (as Hyacinthe Rigaud);

By whom sold to C.F.E. Schmidt, Berlin, with Katz, Dieren, and acquired in 14 August 1944 for the planned Führermuseum, Linz (as Hyacinthe Rigaud);

Transferred at the end of the Second World War to the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (SNK) (as Jacob Ferdinand Voet [inv. NK1840]);

Restituted to the heirs of M.A. von Friedländer-Fuld, 2004;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Private Collector'), Christie's, London, 24 April 2009, lot 69.

Literature:
Duplikat. Schätzung von Gegenständen mit besonderem Kunst- und kunstgewerblichen Wert als Anlagezu den Umzugakten auf Veranlassung der Devisenstelle - Berlin im Hause der Frau von Friedländer-Fuld,Berlin, Pariserplatz 5, June-July 1939, p. 15;

The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), archives of the administrator of the Sammelverwaltung feindlicher Hausgeräte and the Geschäftsstelle fürVerwaltung feindlicher Warenlager, access no. 282, inventory no. 238 (as by Hyacinthe Rigaud, titled Herrnporträt, Prinz de Rohan, valued at RM 8,000).