Frans van Mieris the Elder
Self-Portrait in Fanciful Dress
c. 166711 x 8.2 cm
Oil on panel
The Leiden Collection, New York
Provenance
Jan van Beuningen (1667–1720), Amsterdam (to Pieter de la Court van der Voort for 120 florins)
Pieter de la Court van der Voort (1664–1739), Leiden, before 1731
by descent to Catherina Backer, his son’s widow
her sale, Leiden, 8 September 1766, nr. 23 (to H. de Winter for 470 florins)
Gottfried Winckler (1731–95), Leipzig, by 1768
François Jean-André (François) Duval (1776–1854), Saint Petersburg and Geneva, by 1812 (to Charles de Morny)
Charles Auguste Louis Joseph (Charles) de Morny (1811–65), Duke of Morny, Paris, 1845
"Duval" sale, Phillips, London, 12 May 1846, nr. 42 (for £525)
private collection
sale, London, Christie’s, 21 February 1903, nr. 80 (to Schroeder for £38)
Max Steinthal (1850–1940), Berlin, by 1909
by descent to the Steinthal Community of Heirs
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 2012, nr. 6 (to Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd.)
with Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2017
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Other works by Frans van Mieris the Elder
A Young Woman Writing a Letter
c. 1670
c. 1670
Woman Tuning a Teorbo
1665
1665
Portrait of a Thirty-Year-Old Man
1669
1669
Woman with a Lapdog, Accompanied by a Maidservant (probably Bathsheba with King David’s Letter)
1680
1680
Portrait of a lady, half-length
1673
1673