Paulus Moreelse (1571-1638)

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Paulus Moreelse (1571-1638)

Portrait of a Lady, half length, wearing a black silk dress, lace collar, a black bow and pearls with a ring hanging from a string around her neck

signed and dated upper right PM(linked)/1625, oil on panel
66.8 x 55.6 cm

Provenance

see previous lot

Literature

Ch. Boissevain, Iets over de Tentoonstelling in Arti, in De Gids, X, June 1872, p. 535
Een Vrouweportret van Moreelse, Eigen Haard, 1895, pp. 72/73, with ill.
E. W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, II, 1905, p. 270
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, II, 1910, p. 187, together with the so-called pendant
C.H. de Jonge, Paulus Moreelse - Portret- en genreschilder te Utrecht 1571-1638, 1938, pp. 29 and 90, no. 82, fig. 59

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Maatschappij Arit et Amicitiae, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, 1872, no. 171
Utrecht, Gebouw voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Tentoonstelling van Oude Schilderkunst, 1894, no. 144
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, Exposition de Maîtres Hollandais du XVIIe Siècle, 1906, no. 88, together with the so-called pendant
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Tentoonstelling van werken van Paulus Moreelse, 1938, no. 24

Lot Essay

As pointed out by De Jonge (loc.cit.), the present lot is characteristic of Moreelse's portraiture circa 1618-1625; when his sitters become more richly dressed, with the newly fashionable stand-up 'Medici' collar and the sleeves of the dresses are slashed revealing a light underdress with stitched bands. It is to be compared with the portrait of Ermgard Elisabeth van Dorth of 1624 (de Jonge, op.cit., no. 71, pl. IV).

In a 17th century Dutch ebonised frame

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