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Portrait of Marguerite of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders, bust-length, turned to the left
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Johannes Meyssens (1612-1670)
Meyssens, J.
Portrait of Marguerite of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders, bust-length, turned to the left
with inscription 'Margarite de Constantinople 21 Comptesse de Flan[dres]' and '28'
black ink, pen and grey ink, gray wash heightened with white on gray-blue paper, in an arched window
7 x 4 in. (177 x 121mm.)
Meyssens, J.
Portrait of Marguerite of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders, bust-length, turned to the left
with inscription 'Margarite de Constantinople 21 Comptesse de Flan[dres]' and '28'
black ink, pen and grey ink, gray wash heightened with white on gray-blue paper, in an arched window
7 x 4 in. (177 x 121mm.)
Provenance
Pauline Bonaparte, her bookplate on the former binding, to Henry Richard Vassall Fox, third Lord Holland.
Mrs. Arnett Hibbert; Sotheby's, June 9, 1941, part of lot 54 (145 to Dr. Scharf).
Given to Dr. Burchard by Dr. Alfred Scharf, 31 May 1944.
Mrs. Arnett Hibbert; Sotheby's, June 9, 1941, part of lot 54 (145 to Dr. Scharf).
Given to Dr. Burchard by Dr. Alfred Scharf, 31 May 1944.
Engraved
Cornelis Meyssens, in reverse, for Effigies des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandres, Antwerp, 1663 (Holl. 133).