Master Paintings and 19th Century European Art
Master Paintings and 19th Century European Art
Property from ‘The World of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman’
Franco-Flemish School, mid-16th century
Portrait of a noblewoman as a sibyl, wearing an ornate jeweled headdress and coronet, holding a book in her left hand, and a baldacchino above
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May 25, 07:43 PM GMT
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70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Property from ‘The World of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman’
Franco-Flemish School, mid-16th century
Portrait of a noblewoman as a sibyl, wearing an ornate jeweled headdress and coronet, holding a book in her left hand, and a baldacchino above
inscribed on the book with text from Saint Augustine's City of God, Book 18, Chapter 23: Vunde Deum cernent inc / ... fidelis Celsum cu / tis evi iam / ipso Sic ani / Aderunt/ iacet...
oil on panel
panel: 30 by 24 ⅞ in.; 76.2 by 63.2 cm.
framed: 36 by 30 ¾ in.; 91.4 by 78.1 cm.
Anonymous sale, New York, Parke Bernet, 29 April 1965, lot 46 (as School of Fontainebleau);
Where acquired by Wildenstein.