Sale 8622
London, South Kensington
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15 December 1999
Price realised
GBP 3,450
Estimate
Follower of Michiel van Musscher An allegorical portrait of an artist, probably Rachel Ruysch, seated full-length, in a white dress with a blue sash, holding a paint brush before an easel, a draped table with a palette, books and sculpture at her side, an angel blowing a horn with a putto holding a laurel wreath above oil on canvas 47½ x 38½ in. (120.8 x 97.8 cm.)
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The prototype by Michiel van Musscher is in the Raleigh Museum, North Carolina (see A. Wheelock, catalogue of the exhibition From Bottany to Bouquets, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999, pp.72/3, fig.64)
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