Lot 3057 - A176 Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens - mardi, 22. mars 2016, 14h30
MICHAELINA WAUTIER
(Mond c.1617–1689 Brussels)
Portrait of Martino Martini, Jesuit missionary in China. 1654.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated upper left: Michaelina Wautier fecit 1654. Chinese inscription upper right: Wei Kuangguo (Chinese title of the sitter).
69.5 × 59 cm.
Provenance:
- Auction, Dobiaschofsky, Bern, 18.-19.10.1973, Lot 665 (with false assignment of the sitter as "Vermutliches Bildnis des Johannes Hus").
- Since that time, in a Swiss private collection.
Literature:
Katlijne Van der Stighelen: Prima inter pares. Over de voorkeur van aartshertog Leopold-Wilhelm voor Michaelina Woutiers (ca 1620-na 1682), in: Hans Vlieghe and Katlijne Van der Stighelen (ed.): Sponsors of the Past. Flemish Art and Patronage 1550-1700, p. 91-116, fig. 24, p. 108.
We are grateful to Prof. Katlijne Van der Stighelen for confirming the present painting as a work by the hand of the artist on the basis of a photograph. She dates it between 1646 and 1659 based on stylistic considerations and will publish it in her upcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist.
- Auction, Dobiaschofsky, Bern, 18.-19.10.1973, Lot 665 (with false assignment of the sitter as "Vermutliches Bildnis des Johannes Hus").
- Since that time, in a Swiss private collection.
Literature:
Katlijne Van der Stighelen: Prima inter pares. Over de voorkeur van aartshertog Leopold-Wilhelm voor Michaelina Woutiers (ca 1620-na 1682), in: Hans Vlieghe and Katlijne Van der Stighelen (ed.): Sponsors of the Past. Flemish Art and Patronage 1550-1700, p. 91-116, fig. 24, p. 108.
We are grateful to Prof. Katlijne Van der Stighelen for confirming the present painting as a work by the hand of the artist on the basis of a photograph. She dates it between 1646 and 1659 based on stylistic considerations and will publish it in her upcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist.
CHF 7 000 / 10 000 | (€ 7 220 / 10 310)
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