Anthony van Dyck
Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, wife of Marchese Nicola Cattaneo
1623246 x 173 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., DC
Widener Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Barnes II.45
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 331
Literature
Christopher White, Anthony van Dyck & the art of portraiture, London, 2021, fig. 95
Provenance
Giacomo Cattaneo (born 1593), Genoa, husband of the sitter
by inheritance to his sons, Filippo Cattaneo (1619-1684) and Gio. Giacomo Cattaneo (1628-1712), Genoa
by inheritance 1712 to their great-nephew, Nicolò Cattaneo (1676-1746), Genoa
by inheritance to Giambatista Cattaneo, Genoa, by 1780
Nicola Cattaneo, Genoa, by 1827
Cattaneo della Volta Collection, until 1906
sold to Antonio Monti, Ferrara
on joint account December 1906 with P. & D. Colnaghi, London
on three-way joint account February 1907 with M. Knoedler and Co., New York
sold 1908 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park
gift 1942 to NGA
Other works by Anthony van Dyck
Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby
The assumption of the Virgin
c. 1627
c. 1627
Study of Boy's Head and Hands
c. 1618-20
c. 1618-20
Self-Portrait
c. 1633
c. 1633
Apostle