Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

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Jacob Duck

Portrait of a young woman as the Penitent Magdalene

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Lot Closed

March 24, 03:13 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jacob Duck

Utrecht (?) circa 1600 - 1667

Portrait of a young woman as the Penitent Magdalene


oil on canvas

unframed: 72.4 x 61.1 cm.; 28 1/2 x 24 in.

framed: 75.5 x 86 cm.; 29 3/4 x 33 7/8 in.

A. van Oostveen, Utrecht, 1960;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 15-16 December 1983, lot 158;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 20 July 1984, lot 40, where acquired for the Wieg collection.
J. Rosen, Jacob Duck c. 1600-1667. Catalogue raisonné, Amsterdam 2017, p. 247, cat. no. 150, reproduced.

Primarily known for his guardroom and brothel scenes, the Utrecht painter Jacob Duck also executed depictions of single figures, such as the present work. Here we see an elegantly-dressed lady in the guise of Mary Magdalene, identifiable as such through the attribute of the skull.


A oval copy on canvas, of similar dimensions (75 x 61.5 cm.), is recorded by Rosen (see Literature).1


1 Rosen 2017, p. 247, cat. no. 150A, reproduced.