Lot Essay
For the catalogue note for this lot, please see lot 22 in this sale.
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Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, seated, before a balustrade, holding a fan, a landscape with bleaching fields and a view out to sea beyond
Details
Bartholomeus van der Helst (Haarlem 1613-1670)
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, seated, before a balustrade, holding a fan, a landscape with bleaching fields and a view out to sea beyond
signed and dated 'B. vander.helst 1655' (on the stone balustrade, lower left)
oil on canvas
44 x 37 7/8 in. (111.7 x 96.2 cm.)
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, seated, before a balustrade, holding a fan, a landscape with bleaching fields and a view out to sea beyond
signed and dated 'B. vander.helst 1655' (on the stone balustrade, lower left)
oil on canvas
44 x 37 7/8 in. (111.7 x 96.2 cm.)
Provenance
Jean-Robert Tronchin Boissier (1710-1793), Procureur-Général of Geneva, by 1777, when recorded by his brother François Tronchin in a list of the most important paintings in Geneva collections, 'Tronchin Boissier, Un bourguemestre et sa femme, pendans de Barthelemy van der Helst. Les fonds de Jaq. Ruysdaal', and by inheritance to form part of the
Cabinet de Bessinge, near Geneva, acquired en bloc in 1938, by
Xavier Givaudan, and by descent to the present owner.
Cabinet de Bessinge, near Geneva, acquired en bloc in 1938, by
Xavier Givaudan, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J. Crosnier, 'Bessinge', Nos Anciens et leurs oeuvres, VIII, Geneva, 1908, pp. 81-3, illustrated.
J.J. de Gelder, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Rotterdam, 1921, p. 178, no. 180; and p. 207, no. 534, 'Een landschap door een ander schilder'.
J. van Ghent, Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670): een studie naar zijn leven en zijn werk, Ph.D. thesis, University of Utrecht, due for publication 2011, no. 78.
J.J. de Gelder, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Rotterdam, 1921, p. 178, no. 180; and p. 207, no. 534, 'Een landschap door een ander schilder'.
J. van Ghent, Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670): een studie naar zijn leven en zijn werk, Ph.D. thesis, University of Utrecht, due for publication 2011, no. 78.
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée Rath, De Genève à l'Ermitage - Les Collections de François Tronchin, 21 June-15 September 1974, no. 5.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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