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Aelbert Cuyp

Portrait of Christina Pijll (1601 - 1652), half-length, holding a feather

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May 25, 03:13 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 USD

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Aelbert Cuyp

1620 - 1691

Portrait of Christina Pijll (1601 - 1652), half-length, holding a feather


signed lower left: A. cuyp. fecit.

oil on canvas

canvas: 35 by 30 in.; 88.9 by 76.2 cm.

framed: 46 by 41 in.; 116.8 by 104.1 cm.

August Janssen (1864 - 1918), Kasteel Biljoen and Amsterdam;
By whom sold to Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam;
Edward A. Faust (1868 - 1936) and Anna Busch Faust (1875 - 1936), St. Louis, by 1925; Thence by descent to the present owner.
J. Goudstikker, Catalogue de la collection Goudstikker, d'Amsterdam, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1919 - 1920, cat. no. 16, reproduced (as Portrait of Josina Pijll);
J. Goudstikker, Catalogue de la collection Goudstikker, d'Amsterdam, exhibition cataloue, Oslo/Copenhagen/Stockholm 1920, cat. no. 14, reproduced;
Exhibition of Dutch Pictures from the 15th - 20th Century: Collection Goudstikker, exhibition catalogue, St. Louis 1922, cat. no. 28, reproduced;
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Dutch and Flemish Pictures XV to XX century from the Goudstikker Collection of Amsterdam, exhibition catalogue, New York 1923, cat. no. 30;
E. Hutchings, "The Faust Collection," in International Studio 81 (1925), p. 442, reproduced;
Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis 7, no. 3 (July 1927), pp. 58-59 (as Portrait of Josina Pijll);
A. Chong, "Aelbert Cuyp and the Meanings of Landscape," Ph.D. diss., New York University 1992, cat. no. C132 (as not by Aelbert Cuyp and not examined);
A. Chong, New Portraits by Aelbert Cuyp: A Portrait of a Man Holding a Watch, from around 1650, London 2021, p. 9, reproduced fig. 10 (as Cuyp, Portrait of Christina Pijll).
Amsterdam, Maatschappij voor Beeldende Kunsten, Catalogue de la collection Goudstikker, d'Amsterdam, 1919 - 1920, no. 16 (as Portrait of Josina Pijll);
Oslo, Kunstforening Christiana; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst; Stockholm, Kongliga Akademien for de Fria Konsterna, Catalogue de la collection Goudstikker, d'Amsterdam, 1920, no. 14;
St. Louis, City Art Museum, Exhibition of Dutch Pictures from the 15th - 20th Century: Collection Goudstikker, 1922, no. 28;
New York, Anderson Gallery, Exhibition of the Dutch and Flemish Pictures XV to XX century from the Goudstikker Collection of Amsterdam, 1923, no. 30;
St. Louis, City Art Museum, 1927; 1931-1933, on loan from Faust collection.