Portrait of Margaret of Austria, three-quarter-length, in a black dress and white headdress, kneeling at a table holding a book, a landscape beyond

Details

After Barent van Orley
Portrait of Margaret of Austria, three-quarter-length, in a black dress and white headdress, kneeling at a table holding a book, a landscape beyond
oil on panel, oval
24.8 x 18.5 cm.

Provenance

von Hollitscher, Berlin.
with Reinhardt, New York.
Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 9 November 1940, lot 515.

Literature

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting. Jan Gossart and Bernart van Orley, Brussels, 1972, VIII, p. 109, under no. 133, plate 115, illustrated, as copy after Barent van Orley.

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Lot Essay

The present composition is after the right wing of a diptych in the collection of the Prince of Wied, Neuwied (see M.J. Friedländer, op. cit.), probably painted around 1518. The left wing shows the Virgin and Child and the right wing is the portrait of Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands.

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