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Frans Pourbus the Elder

Portrait of a Lady in a Lace Cap

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February 7, 04:12 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Frans Pourbus the Elder

Bruges 1545/1546 - 1581 Antwerp

Portrait of a Lady in a Lace Cap


oil on panel

panel: 12 by 8 ¼ in.; 30.5 by 21.0 cm

framed: 17 by 13 ⅝ in.; 43.2 by 34.6 cm

Counts of Mansfeld Collection, by the 18th century;

Stefan von Auspitz (1869-1945), Vienna;

From whom acquired by Kurt Walter Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague (inv. no. V/872);

From whom acquired by Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam and Vierhouten, for $3,000, 1932 until at least 1952;

Anonymous sale, Geneva, Piguet, 2 October 2013, lot 1207;

With Weiss Gallery, London (as Adriaen Thomasz. Key);

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian, 2014.

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Meesterwerken uit vier Eeuwen 1400-1800: Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen en Teekeningen, 25 June - 15 October 1938, no. 19 (lent by D.G. van Beuningen);

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Nederlandsche kunst van de XVde en XVIde eeuw, 1 September - 15 October 1945, no. 79 (lent by D.G. van Beuningen);

Paris, Petit Palais, Chefs d'œuvre de la collection D.G. van Beuningen, 1952, no. 69.

L. von Baldass, Primitive Northern Pictures of the Auspitz Collection, Unpublished Manuscript, 1933, p. 18 (as Pieter Pourbus);

Meesterwerken uit vier Eeuwen 1400-1800: Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen en Teekeningen uit Particuliere Verzamelingen in Nederland, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam 1938, pp. 6, 36, cat. no. 19, reproduced pl. 48 (as Pieter Pourbus);

Nederlandsche kunst van de XVde en XVIde eeuw, exhibition catalogue, The Hague 1945, p. 52, cat. no. 79 (as Frans Pourbus the Elder);

D. Hannema, Catalogue of the D.G. van Beuningen Collection, Rotterdam 1949, p. 43, cat. no. 29, reproduced pl. 62;

D. Hannema, Chefs d'œuvre de la collection D.G. van Beuningen, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam 1952, p. 39, cat. no. 69;

G. Brackez, Frans Pourbus de Oudere (1545-1581), Een blik op zijn leven en oeuvre, M.A. Thesis, University of Ghent 2012, p. 51, cat. no. A41.