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Sir Anthony van Dyck (painter) Flemish, 1599 - 1641 Isabella Brant, 1621 oil on canvas Overall: 153 x 120 cm (60 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.) framed: 185.4 x 151.1 cm (73 x 59 1/2 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.47 On View |
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Provenance
Pierre Crozat [1665-1740], Paris; by inheritance to his nephews, first to Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel [1691-1750], Paris, and then [on Louis-François' death without a male heir] to Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers [1700-1770]; the latter's heirs; purchased 1772, through Denis Diderot [1713-1784] as an intermediary, by Catherine II [1729-1796], empress of Russia, for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg; purchased August 1930, as a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; and M. Knoedler & Co., New York) by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[1] gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Mellon purchase date and date deeded to Mellon Trust is according to Mellon collection files in NGA curatorial records and David Finley's notebook (donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, now in the Gallery Archives).
Associated Names
- Catherine II of Russia
- Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
- Crozat, baron de Thiers, Louis-Antoine
- Crozat, marquis du Châtel, Louis-François
- Crozat the Younger, Pierre
- Diderot, Denis
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Matthiesen Fine Art Limited
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- State Hermitage Museum
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