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Lot 28
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Jan Mytens The Hague 1614 - 1670

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Description

  • Jan Mytens
  • Portrait of a Lady as Diana, three-quarter length, wearing a blue silk dress and a pearl necklace, and holding a bow and arrow
  • signed lower left: jAMytens F:
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 April 1994, lot 103 (£9,200).

Literature

A.N. Bauer, Jan Mijtens, Berlin 2002, p. 193, cat. no. A50, reproduced colour plate XXIX, p. 379.

Catalogue Note

Eleven portraits by Mytens of sitters in the guise of Diana are known, all of very similar format and costume.  Only two of the sitters can be identified: Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau, Fürstin van Nassau-Diez (Netherlands, private collection), and Maria van Oranje-Nassau, Herzogin von Simmern (whereabouts unknown). Nina Bauer dates the present work to 1660-1665, in line with the other eleven portraits of this type (see Literature).  The present work is closest in execution and pose to that at Elton Hall, Peterborough (see A.N. Bauer, op. cit., p. 193, cat. no. A51, reproduced).