Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of a Flemish lady



Anthony van Dyck - Portrait of a Flemish lady



Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of a Flemish lady
1618/21
123 x 90 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection


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Anthony van Dyck - Portrait of a Young Man
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Portrait of a Young Man

Literature


Catalogues raisonnés
Barnes I.123 info

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 326


Provenance


Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris
by inheritance to his nephews, first to Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel (1691-1750), Paris, and then (on Louis-François' death without a male heir) to Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers (1699-1770), Paris
the latter's heirs
purchased 1772, through Denis Diderot (1713-1784) as an intermediary, by Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
purchased between June 1930 and April 1931 through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
his estate
deeded 8 March 1938 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1940 to NGA
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Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Wheel Ruff

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Man with a Bow and a Sheaf of Arrows
c. 1618-20

Anthony van Dyck (?) Simon
Simon
after 1629

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