Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in an embroidered black dress with a white 'molensteenkraag'

Details

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer (Harlingen 1608-1653 Amsterdam)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in an embroidered black dress with a white 'molensteenkraag'
oil on panel
48.4 x 37.4 cm.

Provenance

In the family of the present owners since the 1920s.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr Peter van den Brink for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (verbal communication, 14 March 2008). He will include this lot in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist. Van den Brink dates the picture to circa 1638-9, the period in which Backer also painted the Portrait of an Elderly Woman in the Walace Collection, London.

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