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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 122. Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a black coat and fur wrap, with a white headdress.

Property from a Private collects ion

Master of the 1540s

Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a black coat and fur wrap, with a white headdress

Lot Closed

July 8, 01:22 PM GTNN

Estimate

26,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private collects ion

Master of the 1540s

Active in Antwerp 1541 - 1551

Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a black coat and fur wrap, with a white headdress


inscribed and dated upper left and right: ÆTATIS · SVÆ · / ·5·8· / Ao · DNI · 1541 ·

oil on oak panel

unframed: 59.9 x 45 cm.; 23⅝ x 17¾ in.

framed: 77.8 x 63.3 cm.; 30⅝ x 24⅞ in.

Acquired in the 1980s by the present owner.

This portrait is comparable to a number of other portraits executed by the Master of the 1540s at the start of that decade, in which women are depicted wearing white headdresses and black, fur-lined coats, such as the Portrait of a lady, dated 1542 (Galleria Sabauda, Turin), in which the sitter's cuffs are secured with almost identical gold buttons;1 and the Portrait of a young woman, likewise dated 1541 (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).2Over t.mes distinctive underdrawing has become visible in some areas of the painting, with diagonal hatch marks visible in the folds of the headdress and short lines used to denote the brows, jawline and nose of the sitter. Further underdrawing is visible in the lady's hands, and there appears to be a small pent.mes nt along her left thumb.


1 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/39590

2 https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collects ion/works/482.1993/

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