Lot 63: GOTTHARDT DE WEDIG COLOGNE 1583 - 1641

signed with monogram upper left: GD (in ligature) W.F., dated and inscribed with the age of the sitter upper right: AE (in ligature) TATIS. SVE : 43:-/1638 and charged with the housemark of the sitter upper right: NM (in compendium).

oil on panel

A PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED GENTLEMAN, AGED 43, BUST LENGTH, WEARING A BLACK SUIT WITH WHITE LACE COLLAR, HOLDING GLOVES IN HIS RIGHT HAND

70.4 by 53.4 cm.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Gottfried von Wedig 1583-1641. Stilleben und Porträts, 1998-9, p. 93, cat. no. P24.

J. Niessen, Verzeichnis der Gemälde-Sammlung des Museums Wallraf-Richartz in Köln, Cologne 1888, pp. 59-60, cat. no. 470y;
G. Grzimek, Europaïsche Meister von 1520 bis 1640, Ravensburg 1957, p. 55, cat. no. H16;
H. Vey, 'Gottfried von Wedig', in: Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, 1962, pp. 312 and 318-9, cat. no. 14, reproduced p. 313, fig. 187;
G. Grzimek, Vom Aufgang der Neuzeit. Katalog der Sammlung der Familie Grzimek, Ravensburg 1966, pp. 97-8, reproduced fig. 1;
C. Hesse & M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln: Völlständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, p. 317, inv. no. WRM 1328;
S. Blöcker, N. Buchmann, G. Goldberg, R. Krischel, Lust und Verlust: Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860, vol. II, Cologne 1998, p. 174, cat. no. 20.

OTHER PROPERTIES

Ferdinand Franz Wallraf, Cologne (1748-1824), inv. no. fol. 112 v (as by Christian van Couwenbergh);
By whom bequeathed to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne (inv. no. WRM 1328);
By whom sold via Professor Ewald, Haus der Rheinischen Heimat, 8 February 1944;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Menna, 28-30 March 1957, lot 1073;
Dr. Günther Grzimek, Berlin;
Thence by descent to the present owners.