Portrait of Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, Princess of Condé , bust-length, in a red dress with slashed sleeves and a white ruff, and red ribbons in her coiffure

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Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, Princess of Condé , bust-length, in a red dress with slashed sleeves and a white ruff, and red ribbons in her coiffure
with inscription and date 'MONTMORENCY.1600.' (upper centre)
oil on canvas
31 x 25 in. (78.2 x 63.5 cm.), with additions of c. 1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) all round

Provenance

Mrs. Christopherson, 1960 (according to label on the reverse).
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1986, lot 359, as Studio of Frans Pourbus II 'Portrait of Madame de Montmorency' (sold £2,000).

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Lot Essay

A reduced but early copy of the portrait in the Frick Museum, Pittsburgh, see H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum, Ludwig Burchard, Part XIX, Portraits, 1988, no. 86, who lists two other copies.The added inscription confirms Burchards's supposition which was later validated by a reference to the Frick picture in a Legané collection inventory of 1642. Vlieghe following Burchard, however dated the picture to c.1610. The sitter who died in 1650, married Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé in 1609; the couple stayed at the Archducal court in Brussels in 1609-10, as Vlieghe records.

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