description

Jan Mijtens (The Hague 1614 - The Hague 1670)

Oil on Canvas
46 1/2 x 37 inches (118.1 x 94 cms)
Signed lower center: 'Mytens Fe. / 1666'

Provenance

Sale: Auction Monteforte, Worth Park, July 18, 1915, lot 680;
Collection of Booth Tarkington;
Christie's, London, November 24, 1961, lot 118 (160 gns to Nicholls);
Private collection, USA

Literature

A.N. Bauer, Jan Mijtens (1613/14-1670): Leben und Werk, Petersberg, 2006, cat. no. A20 (Accepted Works), p. 173, illustrated p. 367 (as Portrait of an unknown man in a landscape, present location unknown, 1666).