Franco-Flemish School

Profile portrait of a lady



Franco-Flemish School - Profile portrait of a lady



Franco-Flemish School
Profile portrait of a lady
c. 1415
52 x 36.5 cm
Oil on wood
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection


Literature

Collection catalogues
John Oliver Hand, Martha Wolff, Early Netherlandish painting, Washington; New York, 1986, pp. 90-97
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 111


Provenance

Henry Valentine Stafford Jerningham, 9th Baron of Stafford (died 1884)
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 30 May 1885, nr. 373, as Blanche, daughter of Henry IV of England
James Gurney
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 12 March 1898, nr. 7, as Blanche, daughter of Henry IV of England
Cooper
M. de Villeroy, Paris
sequestered property sale, Galérie Georges Petit, Paris, 28-29 April 1922, nr. 34, as School of Vienna, Portrait of a Lady
with Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York, sold 1923 to Clarence H. Mackay (1874-1938), Roslyn, New York
repurchased 1935 by Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York
purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA