• Christie's Interiors - Masters auction at Christies

    Sale 9441

    Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers

    London, South Kensington

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    1 October 2013

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    • Margaret Pfeifer, circa 1883,
    Lot 415

    Margaret Pfeifer, circa 1883, probably After Sir Anthony van Dyck

    Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), half-length, in a blue dress with gold angel-shaped clasps and a pearl necklace, with two roses in her hand

    Price realised

    GBP 1,875

    Estimate

    GBP 700 - GBP 1,000

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    Margaret Pfeifer, circa 1883, probably After Sir Anthony van Dyck
    Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), half-length, in a blue dress with gold angel-shaped clasps and a pearl necklace, with two roses in her hand
    signed, inscribed and dated 'Margarete Pfeifer München, 1883.' (lower left)
    oil on canvas
    32¾ x 29¾ in. (83 x 75.5 cm.)

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    Lot Essay

    This picture is after a now presumably lost original as there are several known versions of this composition of which none can be attributed with conviction to Van Dyck himself. The present lot follows the copy in the Wallace Collection, London, most closely.

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