Portrait of a Lady
1532
Painter
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 35
Artwork overview
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Medium
tempera on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 44.2 × 31.7 cm (17 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
framed: 59.06 × 46.99 × 6.99 cm (23 1/4 × 18 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1942.16.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly Prince Demidoff, San Donato, near Florence.[1] Probably the family of Count Filicaja (or Filicaia), Arezzo, until 1902;[2] purchased by Henry Osborne Havemeyer [d. 1907], New York, 1902;[3] by inheritance to his wife, Mrs. Henry Osborne Havemeyer [née Louisine Waldron Elder, d. 1929], New York; (sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 10 April 1930, no. 54, as by Ludger tom Ring); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[4] gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Unverified, but mentioned in a letter of 21 April 1930 from Helena A. Dillingham, for the estate of Louisine W. Havemeyer, to Mary Bullard, in NGA curatorial files, and in the catalogue of the American Art Association sale of 10 April 1930. (See also: "Havemeyer Sale Brings $296,699 For Parts I and III." Art News 28 (19 April): 4.
[2] Letter of 29 March 1943 from Mary Bullard, Chester Dale's secretary, to John Walker, in NGA curatorial files, also letter of Helena A. Dillingham cited in note 1 above.
[3] Letter of 21 April 1930 form Helena A. Dillingham to Mary Bullard cited in note 1 above.
[4] Handwritten annotation in NGA copy of the sales catalogue.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Degas and His Tradition Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, (not in catalogue).
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1930
"Havemeyer Sale Brings $296,699 For Parts I and III." Art News 28 (19 April 1930): 4.
"Rush at Auction of Havemeyer Art." The New York Times. 11 April 1930: 23
1955
Riewerts, Theodor and Paul Pieper. Die Maler tom Ring: Ludger der Ältere, Hermann, Ludger der Jüngere. Munich, 1955: 69, no. 20, as by Ludger tom Ring der Älter.
1965
Paintings other than French in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 14, repro., as by Ludger Tom Ring the Elder.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 115, as by Ludger Tom Ring the Elder.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 112, no. 700, repro., as by Ludger Tom Ring the Elder.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue (National Gallery of Art). Washington, 1975: 306-307, repro., as by Ludger tom Ring the Elder.
1980
Hand, John Oliver. "The Portrait of Sir Brian Tuke by Hans Holbein the Younger." Studies in the History of Art 9 (1980): 39-40, fig. 10.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 352, repro.
1993
Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, et al. Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993: 342, no. 286 [not in the exhibition].
Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1993: 67-68, repro. 69.
1995
Löcher, Kurt. Review of German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries, by John Oliver Hand with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. Kunstchronik 43 no. 1 (January 1995): 16.
Inscriptions
across top: Bloes bin ich auss mutter leib kome. Bloes werd ich wider hingnoe / Anno 1532 Aetatis suae-45 (Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither, year 1532, age 45); lower left coat-of-arms: (argent, a horse salient forcené gules)
Wikidata ID
Q20176059