Pieter Lely
Mary Capel, Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth, Countess of Carnarvon
130.2 x 170.2 cmOil on canvas
Signed and inscribed: (lower left, on parapet) PL. [monogram]; (on flower painting): E Carnarvon / 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. 7
Provenance
the sitters' brother, Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex, Cassiobury Park, Watford, Hertfordshire, until died 1693
the Earls of Essex, Cassiobury Park, 1693–1916
Algernon George de Vere Capell, 8th Earl of Essex, Cassiobury Park, 1916–22
his sale, Knight, Frank & Rutley, Cassiobury Park, 15 June 1922, nr. 708
with Scott & Fowles, New York, until 1925, sold to Ruppert
Colonel Jacob Ruppert, New York and Garrison, N.Y., 1925–died 1939
Other works by Pieter Lely
Portrait of a young woman
Study for a Portrait of a Woman
1670s
1670s
Sir Henry Capel
Scene from History
Diana Bathing