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Lot 3030 - A214 Old Master Paintings - Friday, 19. September 2025, 02.00 PM

JAN LIEVENS

(Leiden 1607–1674 Amsterdam)
Portrait of woman by candlelight.
Oil on panel.
65.3 × 51.7 cm.

Provenance:
- Probably Auction J. A. van Kinschot, Delft, 21.7.1767, lot 66.
- Probably Auction A. F. Jentink-Farret u. a., Amsterdam, 1.6.1897, lot 205.
- Collection of Lucien Baszenger, Geneva.
- Auction Sotheby's, London, 23.5.1979, No. 52 (as Rembrandt).
- Private collection, Switzerland.

Exhibited:
- Delft 1953, Vijftig werken uit de Collectie Baszanger te Genève, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, cat. no. 36 (as Rembrandt) (with label on the reverse).
- Geneva 1955, Cent tableaux de la collection Baszanger, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, cat. no. 69 (as Rembrandt).

Literature:
- H. Schneider: Jan Lievens. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Haarlem 1932, p. 159, cat. no. 288.
- Louis Réau: Catalogue Collection Baszanger, Genf 1950, p. 113, cat. no. 82 (as Rembrandt van Rijn).
- Louis Réau: Les maîtres anciens de la Collection Baszanger, Geneva 1967, cat. no. 68 (as Rembrandt van Rijn).
- Werner Sumowski: Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Lindau 1983, vol. V, p. 3109, cat. no. 2126, (as Jan Lievens) (with ill.).

Our thanks to Dr Arthur Wheelock who has confirmed the authenticity of this work on the basis of a photograph.


CHF 10 000 / 15 000 | (€ 10 310 / 15 460)

Sold for CHF 325 000 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.