THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE SIR FITZROY MACLEAM, BT., K.T.
After Sir Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Geneviève d'Urfé, Duchess of Cröy, seated three-quarter length, in a black dress with lace collar and cuffs

Details
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Geneviève d'Urfé, Duchess of Cröy, seated three-quarter length, in a black dress with lace collar and cuffs
oil on canvas, unframed
46 x 39½in. (116.8 x 100.3cm.)
Provenance
The Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, and by descent to
Charles, 8th Duke of Marlborough; Christie's, 31 July 1886 (= 3rd day), lot 236 (51gns. to Daten).
Eduard Friedrich Weber, Hamburg; (+) sale, Lepke, Berlin, 20-22 Feb. 1912, lot 202.
Rosset; sale, Lyon, Nov. 1963, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
M. Rooses, Fifty Masterpieces of Anthony van Dyck, London, 1900, p. 87.
L. Cust, Anthony van Dyck. An Historical Study of his Life and Works, London, 1900, p. 254, no. 27, as by Van Dyck.
E. Schaeffer, Van Dyck. des Meisters Gemälde [Klassiker der Kunst], XIII, Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1909, no. 286.
G. Glück, ed., Van Dyck, des Meisters Gemälde [Klassiker der Kunst], XIII, 2nd ed., Stuttgart and Berlin, 1981, p. 550, under no. 283, as a workshop replica.
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren, 1988, II, p. 203, under no. 505.
Exhibited
Antwerp, 1899.

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