Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a blue dress, holding a puppy

Details

Corneille de La Haye, called Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/1510-1575 Lyons)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a blue dress, holding a puppy
oil on panel
7 x 61/8 in. (17.8 x 15.6 cm.)

Provenance

Lambert, New York.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, New York, 2 June 1988, lot 114, as 'Attributed to Corneille de Lyon' (sold $209,000).

Literature

(Presumably) C. Sterling, Musée de l'Ermitage. La peinture française de Poussin à nos jours, Paris, 1957, p. 10, under no. 214 (as in a private collection, Paris, 1953).
A. Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon, Paris, 1996, p. 120, no. 16A, illustrated.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Sale room notice

Please note that the measurements for this painting are 6½ x 55/8 in. (16.6 x 14.2 cm.), the illustration is therefore slightly larger than actual size.

Lot Essay

De Groër (op. cit., p. 119), following Sterling (loc. cit.) describes this picture as an autograph replica of de Lyon's prototype in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. De Groër lists a further three versions, although these depict the sitter facing the opposite way to this picture. The present panel is closest to the Pushkin prototype, although the latter shows the sitter bust-length, and without the small dog here included by the artist.

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