Frans van Mieris the Elder

Portrait of a lady, half-length



Frans van Mieris the Elder - Portrait of a lady, half-length



Frans van Mieris the Elder
Portrait of a lady, half-length
1673
23 x 17 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated in dark paint on lowest stair riser, lower left corner: F van Mieris. 1673
The Leiden Collection, New York


Provenance


Nicolaas Nieuhoff, Amsterdam, before 1776
his sale, Amsterdam, 14–17 April 1777, nr. 121 (Yver for f 700)
with Pieter Yver, Amsterdam
Jan Tak, Leiden
his sale, Zoeterwoude, 5 September 1781, nr. 10 (Nijman for f 475)
Jan Danser Nijman, Amsterdam (not in his sale, Amsterdam, 16 August 1797)
Chevalier François Xavier de Burtin, before 1818
his sale, Brussels, 21 July 1819, nr. 103 (f 3,000)
Baron Anthony Nathan Rothschild, London, by 1842–76
by descent to his daughter, Annie Yorke, born Rothschild, London, 1876–1926
her sale, Christie’s, London, 6 May 1927, nr. 34)
with Edouard Jonas, Paris, 1929
Mrs. Joseph Heine, formerly Mrs. I.D. Levy, New York
her sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24–25 November 1944, nr. 242
private collection, California
sale, Christie’s, New York, 31 May 1990, nr. 148
with Galerie Sankt Lucas, Vienna, 1990–91
with Johnny van Haeften, London, 1992
with Otto Naumann Ltd., 1993
Dr. Hinrich Bischoff, Berlin
with Johnny van Haeften Ltd., London, 2004
from whom acquired by the present owner
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External links


Leiden Collection, New York Accession number FM-109

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