Property from a Private American Collection
Frans Pourbus the Elder
Portrait of a young woman, aged 17, holding a small spaniel wearing a collar of bells
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January 28, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private American Collection
Frans Pourbus the Elder
Bruges 1545/6 - 1581 Antwerp
Portrait of a young woman, aged 17, holding a small spaniel wearing a collar of bells
dated upper left: Ao DNI 1576; and inscribed above an armorial cartouche at upper right: Ætatis Svæ 17
oil on panel
43 by 30 ½ in.; 109.2 by 77.5 cm.
Camille Lelong, France, by 1902;
Her sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 8-10 December 1902, lot 6 (as Antonio Moro);
There acquired by Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris (as Antonio Moro);
From whom acquired by E.R. Bacon, 1905;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 14 March 1924, lot 39 (as Antonio Moro);
A. Ward;
Marie Thérèse, Comtesse de la Beraudiere, Paris;
Her sale, New York, American Art Association, 11-13 December 1930, lot 303 (as A. Moro);
There acquired by J.J. Bodell;
Private collector, Providence, Rhode Island;
By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Providence Private Collector"), New York, American Art Association, 23 January 1936, lot 72 (as Antonis Mor);
Estate of Vida L.W. Hudson, Petersburg, Va;
Anonymous sale, New York, Doyles, 20 September 1978, lot 134 (as Frans Pourbus I).
Her sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 8-10 December 1902, lot 6 (as Antonio Moro);
There acquired by Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris (as Antonio Moro);
From whom acquired by E.R. Bacon, 1905;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 14 March 1924, lot 39 (as Antonio Moro);
A. Ward;
Marie Thérèse, Comtesse de la Beraudiere, Paris;
Her sale, New York, American Art Association, 11-13 December 1930, lot 303 (as A. Moro);
There acquired by J.J. Bodell;
Private collector, Providence, Rhode Island;
By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Providence Private Collector"), New York, American Art Association, 23 January 1936, lot 72 (as Antonis Mor);
Estate of Vida L.W. Hudson, Petersburg, Va;
Anonymous sale, New York, Doyles, 20 September 1978, lot 134 (as Frans Pourbus I).
Art Prices Current, 1923-1924, no. 5, vol. 3, p. 124;
M.J. Friedländer, “Frans Pourbus der Ältere,” in Oud Holland, vol. 62, no. 3, 1947, p. 66, reproduced fig. 7;
G. Brackez, Frans Pourbus de Oudere (1545-1581): Een blik op zijn leven en oeuvre, pp. 40-41, M.A. diss., University of Ghent 2012, cat. no. A20, reproduced fig. 19.
M.J. Friedländer, “Frans Pourbus der Ältere,” in Oud Holland, vol. 62, no. 3, 1947, p. 66, reproduced fig. 7;
G. Brackez, Frans Pourbus de Oudere (1545-1581): Een blik op zijn leven en oeuvre, pp. 40-41, M.A. diss., University of Ghent 2012, cat. no. A20, reproduced fig. 19.
Paris, Sedelmeyer Gallery, 100 paintings by old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English schools, 1905, no. 22 (as Antonio Moro).