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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection

WOLFGANG HEIMBACH | Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing black with white lace collar and cuffs

Lot Closed

September 19, 03:39 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the SØR Rusche Collection

WOLFGANG HEIMBACH

Ovelgönne circa 1615 - after 1678

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING BLACK WITH WHITE LACE COLLAR AND CUFFS


signed and dated lower left: GHB / W / 1628

oil on copper, laid onto panel, oval

unframed: 10.6 x 8.5 cm.; 4⅛ x 3⅜ in.

framed: 18.5 x 17.2 cm.; 7¼ x 6¾ in.


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Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie’s, 23 March 1977, lot 33b, for 5,000 Guilders;

With P. De Boer, Amsterdam, 1977 (when exhibited at the Oude Kunst- en Antiekbeurs, Delft, 13 October - 2 November 1977);

With Jacques Fijnaut, Amsterdam, 1982 (when exhibited at the Kunstmesse, Breda), from whom acquired.

B. Bushart, 'Ein "anderer" Heimbach', in Pantheon, vol. 37, 1979, p. 56, reproduced p. 57, fig. 3;

B. Lymant, Niederländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. 1: Porträt, exh. cat., Liesborn 1985, p. 18, reproduced;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. I, Portraits, Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, p. 64, cat. no. 21, reproduced in colour;

C. Morsbach, Die Genrebilder Von Wolfgang Heimbach (um 1613 - nach 1678), Oldenburg 1999, pp. 203-04, cat. no. BI 8, reproduced (as dated 1638); 

B. Borkopp-Restle, in Textile Schätze aus Renaissance und Barock aus den Sammlungen Bayerischen Nationalmuseums; mit grossen Freuden, Triumph und Köstlichkeit, exh. cat., Munich 2002, p. 130, reproduced in colour.

Paris, Grand Palais, 1978, no. 20 (according to a label on the reverse);

Liesborn, Museum Abtei Liesborn, on loan.


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This painting is dated 1628, and as such is one of Heimbach's very earliest paintings. A mute, it is believed that Heimbach was sent from Ovelgönne, near Oldenburg in Germany, to train in the Netherlands in the early 1630s, and many of his early paintings are Dutch genre-pieces. He later travelled to Italy, where he painted the portrait offered as lot 103 in this sale. As well as these miniature-like portraits, Heimbach executed - often nocturnal - genre paintings, combining varying influences of artists such as Pieter Codde, Dirk Hals and Adam Elsheimer, not to mention the Dutch Tenebrists.