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Two new copper paintings for the Getty
6/7/23 - Acquisitions - Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum - Two new copper paintings have joined the Getty Museum since the recent entry into its collections of Lavinia Fontana’s The Marriage at Cana (see news item of 31/8/22). The first is a Portrait of a Young Man With a Ruff by Thomas Hendricksz de Keyser (ill. 1), purchased from Rob Smeets Old Master Paintings. The effigy featured on the Geneva gallery’s stand at TEFAF Maastricht 2022, as did the preparatory drawing by Lavinia Fontana, which was also acquired by the Getty (see news item 30/1/23).
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- 1. Thomas Hendricksz. de Keyser (c. 1596-1667)
Portrait of a Young Man in a Ruff, mid-1620s
Oil on copper - 11.4 × 9 cm
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum
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