Portrait of a woman, bust-length, holding a rosary

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MANNER OF ADRIAEN ISENBRANDT
Portrait of a woman, bust-length, holding a rosary
oil on panel
14 ¾ x 10 5/8 in. (37.5 x 27 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 18-20 August 1931, lot 226.
with Arnold Seligmann Rey and Co., Inc., New York, by 1936.
Mr. Carl M. Loeb (1875-1955), New York, by 1939, and by descent in the family to the present owner.

Literature

D. Landau, 'Forthcoming sales: Old and Modern Masters at Lucerne,' The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, LIX, 1931, p. xxxi, illustrated.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, XI, New York and Washington D.C., 1974, pp. 93, no. 229, pl. 153.

Exhibited

Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Centennial Exhibition of the Paintings, Sculptures and Graphic Arts, 6 June – 29 November 1936, no. 14.
New York, Art Associates Inc., Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York World’s Fair, 1939 (according to a label on the reverse).

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Lot Essay

When this painting first appeared on the art market in 1931, the great connoisseur of early Netherlandish painting Max J. Friedländer believed it to be by Isenbrandt and judged the work to be a 'wohl erhaltene Bild,' a 'well-preserved picture' (loc. cit.). Even at this early date, however, the painting appears to have been substantially restored and, although the overall effect is charming, the overpaint renders it difficult to ascertain the portrait's authorship.

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