(Women) Artists
(Women) Artists
The Property of a European Private Collector
Catarina Ykens
A garland of fruit and flowers surrounding a portrait of a lady in a blue dress, holding a guitar
Lot Closed
May 27, 01:33 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a European Private Collector
Catarina Ykens
Antwerp 1608/18 - after May 1666
A garland of fruit and flowers surrounding a portrait of a lady in a blue dress, holding a guitar
signed lower center: catarina ijkens. fecit
oil on oak panel
unframed: 40.6 x 27.5 cm.; 16 x 10 ⅞ in.
framed: 55.1 x 42.2 cm.; 21 ¾ x 16 ⅝ in.
Anonymous sale, Brussels, Servarts, 7-9 November 1995, lot 49 (as Jan Pauwel Gillemans and Gonzales Coques);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 1 November 1996, lot 8 (as Catarina Ykens and Attributed to Gonzales Coques), where acquired.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 1 November 1996, lot 8 (as Catarina Ykens and Attributed to Gonzales Coques), where acquired.
K. Van der Stighelen and M. Westen (eds), Elck zijn waerom: vrouwelijke kunstenaars in België en Nederland, 1500-1950 [Women artists from the Netherlands, 1500-1950], exh. cat., Ghent 1999, p. 193, reproduced in colour p. 194, fig. 71 (as Catharina Ykens, b. 1659);
A. van der Willigen and F. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in oils, 1525-1725, Leiden 2003, p. 223.
A. van der Willigen and F. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in oils, 1525-1725, Leiden 2003, p. 223.