Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
The Property of a Gentleman
Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn
Portrait of Eva de Kies van Wissen, née van Kessel (1611–1669), half-length, wearing black with a lace collar and cuffs
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December 9, 02:27 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn
The Hague circa 1572 - 1657
Portrait of Eva de Kies van Wissen, née van Kessel (1611–1669), half-length, wearing black with a lace collar and cuffs
charged with the coats-of-arms of the De Kies von Wissen and Van Kessel families
oil on oak panel
unframed: 70.6 x 62.1 cm.; 27¾ x 24½ in.
framed: 89.5 x 80.5 cm.; 35¼ x 31⅝ in.
His sale, Munich, Hugo Helbing, 11 May 1909, lot 48;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 12–14 June 1980, lot 221.
Eva van Kessel married Bartholomeus de Kies van Wissen (1614–1679), an important Haarlem citizen, in 1640. The present work was almost certainly originally a pendant to a portrait of the sitter's husband, and though no known counterpart to this painting is known, a likeness of Bartholomeus may be found in a painting by Jan de Bray, datable to 1660–65, which was once (erroneously) proposed as a possible pair to this portrait.1The same coats-of-arms of the De Kies van Wissen and Van Kessel families are also found on a pair of paintings, also by Ravesteyn, sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 May 2006, lot 40 (for EUR 72,000).2 However, it is believed that those arms were added to the portraits later and wrongly so, as the sitters bear no resemblance to this portrait of Eva van Kessel, nor the De Bray portrait of Bartholomeus de Kies van Wissen.
1 See Giltaij 2017; and https://rkd.nl/explore/images/128006