Willem Wissing
Portrait of a Woman
c. 1687126.4 x 102.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed right: W.Wissing fecit
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 13
Provenance
Sir Gerald William Henry Codrington, 1st Baronet, Dodington Park, Gloucester, until 1923
sale, Christie's, London, 13 July 1923, nr. 15, to Collings
with Scott & Fowles, New York, until 1926
their sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 19 November 1926, nr. 95, to Ruppert
Colonel Jacob Ruppert, New York and Garrison, N.Y., 1926–died 1939
Other works by Willem Wissing
Portrait of a gentleman, standing three-quarter-length, in a breast plate, a buff coat, a jabot and a brown wrap, a view to a landscape beyond
Portrait of William III (1650-1702), Prince of Orange
Portrait of Queen Mary II
19th Century
19th Century
Portrait of a young boy, full length, seated in a landscape wearing pink robes, his dog by his side
Portrait of William III (1650-1702), Prince of Orange