Karel van der Pluym - A man, bust-length, holding a cane and his spectacles, by a wooden ledge 1625-1672
A man, bust-length, holding a cane and his spectacles, by a wooden ledge 1625-1672
56x43cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 783 000
Auction house: Christie's, London
Sale date: 3 July 2012
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Karel van der Pluym (1625, Leiden – 1672, Leiden), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Rembrandt. According to the Frick gallery, their "old woman with a book" was purchased by Henry Clay Frick in 1916 as a Rembrandt.