Jan van Haensbergen (1642-1705)

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Jan van Haensbergen (1642-1705)

Portrait of a Noblewoman, seated small three quarter length in a landscape, wearing a blue silk dress with ochre wrap, lace chemise and pearls, a hound at her side

signed and dated lower left J.V.H. f/1687 and with signature and the date on the reverse on the relining canvas
51.6 x 42 cm.

Provenance

(the present and following lot:) (probably) the Sohier de Vermandois family
by descent to J.E. Baroness van Pallandt, Neerijen, untill 1972

Literature

(the present and following lot:) F.G.L.O. Kretschmar, Vreemde Eenden in de bijt: Aantekeningen bij enkele portretten op Kasteel Neerijen, in Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, XXVI, 1972, pp. 38/39 and 41, figs. 8 and 9, p. 38

Lot Essay

F. van Kretschmar has inspected the present and following lots during his visit to Huis Neerijen in 1972. In his article on the collection of portraits (op.cit.), he tentatively identified the sitters in the present and following lots as members of the Sohier de Vermandois family from The Hague. He based these thoughts on the presence of portraits of other members of this family in the collection of Huis Neerijen.

If the sitters would indeed be members of the Sohier de Vermandois family, Kretschmar suggests that the sitters could be identified as Anna Catharina Sohier de Vermandois (1672-1687) (the present lot) and her sister Adriaena Constantia Sohier de Vermandois (1675-1735) (the following lot), who were only 15 and 12 years old respectively in the year the present portraits were executed

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