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GOTTFRIED VON WEDIG | Portrait of a lady, aged 26, half-length, wearing a black dress with elaborate gold embroidery, gold chains, lace cuffs and collar, pearl jewellery and a bonnet

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

April 8, 01:06 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

GOTTFRIED VON WEDIG

Cologne 1583 - 1641

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, AGED 26, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A BLACK DRESS WITH ELABORATE GOLD EMBROIDERY, GOLD CHAINS, LACE CUFFS AND COLLAR, PEARL JEWELLERY AND A BONNET


partially dated and inscribed upper left: [...] O. 1637 / [...] T:26

oil on oak panel, reduced

unframed: 71.7 x 60.5 cm.; 28⅛ x 23⅞ in.

framed: 90.6 x 79.5 cm.; 35⅝ x 31⅜ in.


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Possibly Delius family;

Thence by descent to Justizrat Friedrich von Ammon;

Thence by descent to the Romantic-painters family Schmitt, Heidelberg;

Private collection, The Netherlands;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 13 May 2003, lot 64 (as Attributed to Gottfried von Wedig).

The present painting bears close resemblance to a signed and dated portrait by the artist of Magdalena Stroe from 1631, which was with Karl Loevenich, New York, in 1954.1


1 M. Spies, 'Neue Erkenntnisse zu Gottfried von Wedigs Bildnis der Magdalena Stroe (1631)', in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, vol. 70, 2009, pp. 305-08, reproduced p. 306.