Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 19. Portrait of a young woman, aged 17, holding a small spaniel wearing a collar of bells.

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

Auction Closed

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).
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.
Paris, Sedelmeyer Gallery, 100 paintings by old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English schools, 1905, no. 22 (as Antonio Moro).