Anthony van Dyck
Isabella Brant
c. 1621153 x 120 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Barnes I.100
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 324
Literature
Christopher White, Anthony van Dyck & the art of portraiture, London, 2021, fig. 57
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 (1700-1770)
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 August 1930, as a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA
Other works by Anthony van Dyck
Queen Henrietta Maria
Time Clipping the Wings of Love
Portrait of a Fifty-Five-Year-Old Man
c. 1618
c. 1618
Portrait of Lord John and Lord Bernard Stuart
c. 1637
c. 1637
Lady Jane Goodwin
1639
1639