Karel Dujardin (Amsterdam 1626-1678 Venice)
Property from the collection of the late Mr Peter Lehmann-Bärenklau (Lots 23, 50, 72, 140)
Karel Dujardin (Amsterdam 1626-1678 Venice)

Portrait of an old lady, half-length, seated in a chair holding her glasses and pointing at a book on a table

Details
Karel Dujardin (Amsterdam 1626-1678 Venice)
Portrait of an old lady, half-length, seated in a chair holding her glasses and pointing at a book on a table
signed 'K : DU. JAR DIN: fe' (upper left), dated and inscribed with the sitter's age 'Anno 1664 AT · 83' (centre left)
oil on canvas
94.2 x 76.5 cm.
Provenance
Ewald Friedrich Grafen von Hertzberg, since 1795 and by family descent; Their sale, J.M. Heberle, Cologne, 11 March 1902, lot 5, as Jacob Adriaensz Backer.
Mr. J.L. Menke, Brussels, 1 June 1904, lot 39 (frcs. 15,100).
Renner, Hamburg.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné, etc., IX, Teaneck, 1976, no. 406.

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Lot Essay

This recently rediscovered work is an important addition to the small group of existing portraits by Karel Dujardin. The identity of the sitter is not known, but she must have belonged to Amsterdam's elite, from whom Dujardin received several commissions. The Dutch armchair of heavy sqaure form and with carved lion finials, in which she is seated, is comparable with the one in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and can be dated to the first quarter of the 17th Century.

Dujardin was a leading painter of Italianate landscapes. Beside these, he also painted historical scenes in neo-Classical style and portraits. While in The Netherlands, Dujardin lived in The Hague and Amsterdam. In 1675, he travelled to Italy, where he died in Venice in 1678.

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