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Lot 80 · Sotheby's AM1027

a portrait of a gentleman, bust length, wearing a black suit with a white lace collar and a black hat, together with his wife, bust length, wearing a black dress with a white lace collar and a black bonnet, holding a rose in her right hand, near a balustrade with roses, in the open air

Jacob Frans Van Der Merck

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Estimate
€15,000–€20,000 hammer ≈ $20,337–$27,116
Result
Performance
Sale
Sotheby's — Sotheby's AM1027 · 8 May 2007
Record ID
TB-2026-3620035
Record
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Jacob Frans Van Der Merck, a portrait of a gentleman, bust length, wearing a black suit with a white lace collar and a black hat, together with his wife, bust length, wearing a black dress with a white lace collar and a black bonnet, holding a rose in her right hand, near a balustrade with roses, in the open air. Sotheby's, 8 May 2007, lot 80. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3620035.

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Jacob Frans Van Der Merck, a portrait of a gentleman, bust length, wearing a black suit with a white lace collar and a black hat, together with his wife, bust length, wearing a black dress with a white lace collar and a black bonnet, holding a rose in her right hand, near a balustrade with roses, in the open air. Sotheby's, 8 May 2007, lot 80. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3620035.

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