Lot 571
  • 571

Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London

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Description

  • Anthony van Dyck
  • Portrait of Marchesa Catarina Durazzo
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Sir George Lindsay Holford, Westonbirt, Gloucestershire;
His deceased sale, London, Christie's, May 17-18, 1928, lot 62, to Agnew;
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, March 16, 1956, lot 102 (as "A. van Dyck"), to D. Reder

Literature

The Holford Collection, privately printed for Sir George Holford and members of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1924, cat. no. 84, reproduced plate LXXIV (as by van Dyck);
G. Glück, Van Dyck, Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart 1931, p. 540, under S. 183 (as "a replica smaller in size");
E. Larsen, L'opera completa di Van Dyck, 1613-1626, Milan 1983, p. 109, cat. no. 334 (as an autograph version);
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren 1988, vol. II, p. 143, under cat. no. 350 (as an autograph version)
S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven 2004, p. 174, under cat. no. II.29 (as a copy)

Catalogue Note

The present painting is a version of the Portrait of Marchesa Durazzo by van Dyck in the Palazzo Reale, Genoa (oil on canvas, 220 by 150 cm).  The original dates from van Dyck's early Genoese period, circa 1624.  The present version is smaller and may have been cut down on the sides.