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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Mar 17, 2022 | Desa Unicum | Warsaw | Old Masters, 19th Century and Modern Art | 7 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of a Lady, |
paintings
98 x 73.8 cm (38.58 x 29.06 in)
oil/canvas
on the stretcher inscribed in ink: "RUBENS" Wife, by RUBENS | THE CHANDOS PORTRAIT | PURCHASED AT THE DUKE OF Buckingham"s SALE | AT STOWE", an exhibition label of Galerie Charpentier in Paris, an inventory number: "NYAE896" and renovator"s studio label
possibly in Peter Paul Rubens"s collection in Antwerp until sold in 1626-1627 to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham with other paintings and antiquities through the agents Balthasar Gerbier and Michel Le Blond
possibly in George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham"s collection in York House, London listed in the 1635 inventory as ‘Ruben, A Portugese Lady
Sir Peter Lely"s collection before and in 1682 as ‘The Picture of Reubens Wife by Rubens", Covent Garden, London
sold on 18 April 1682 at Sir Peter Lely"s deceased sale, Richard Tomson auction, Covent Garden, London as no. 55. ‘Rubens, Rubens"s wife, 3ft. 8 x 2ft. 7
Sir Richard Temple of Stowe House, Stowe, 3rd Baronet (1634-1697) in 1682 and then by descent to
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749), 4th Baronet, later Baron Cobham and finally Viscount Cobham
Richard Grenville-Temple (1711-1779), 2nd Earl Temple
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville (1753-1813), 1st Marquess of Buckingham
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), 2nd Marquess of Buckingham, later 1st Duke of Buckingham & Chandos
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1797-1861), 2nd Duke of Buckingham & Chandos sold at the Duke of Buckingham & Chandos sale at Stowe House on 14 Sept 1848 at Christie, Manson & Woods as lot no. 337. ‘Helena Forman. Rubens. A very fine portrait of Rubens" favourite wife
Robert Roe (1793-1880) (picture dealer) Cambridge by 1848 (as a Rubens)
William Warburton Pearce (1814-1872) (picture dealer) London by 1872 (as Rubens)
sold at William W. Pearce"s estate sale, Phillips Son & Neale, London, 30 April, 1872, as lot 385. ‘Rubens, A Portrait of Eleanor Brand in a rich dress
Wynne Ellis (1790-1875) at his house at 30 Cadogan Place, London, 1872 -1876
sold at his deceased sale on 27 May 1876 at Christie, Manson & Woods, London as ‘Portrait of his wife, by Rubens
Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, later 1st Baron Glanusk (1840 -1906) by 1876
Edward Charles Baring, 1st Lord Revelstoke (1828 -1897) by 1893
sold at Lord Revelstoke sale on 3 June 1893 at Christie, Manson & Woods, London as ‘Rubens, Portrait of his wife", 38 1 by 29 in., from Stowe, from the Wynn Ellis Collection
probably Martin Henry Colnaghi (1821-1908), London 1893
Jules Porges (1839-1921) collection Paris, France by 1910 as ‘Rubens, Isabelle Brandt
possibly in Von Moltke family collection, Copenhagen, Denmark, -1937-1940 (as Rubens)
Jean Néger (picture dealer), Paris -1950 (as Rubens)
H.H. Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt, Paris (from 1950; as Rubens) and then by descent
H.H. Princess Hanzade Ibrahim (his wife)
Al-Amir" Ahmed Rifaat Mohamed Ali Ibrahim (until 2011)
private collection, London, 2012-2018
heirs of a private collection in London
Exposition d"art ancien; l"art belge au XVIIe siecle, Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, 1910, no. 312 as ‘Rubens, Portrait d"Isabelle Brandt, premiere femme de Rubens
Cents portraits de femmes du 15eme siecle a nos jours, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1950, as Rubens
Le siecle de Rubens, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, 15 października - 12 grudnia 1965, no. 207 as ‘Rubens, Portrait d"Isabelle Brandt
100 Malningar av Polska Konstnarer, Sveagalleriet, Sztokholm, 5-22.02.1966- Władysław Hasior. Europejski Rauschenberg? Wystawa monograficzna, MOCAK, Kraków 14.02-27.04.2014
Randall Davies, An Inventory of the Duke of Buckingham"s Pictures, etc., at York House in 1635, "The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs", Vol. 10, No. 48, London 1907, p. 379 as ‘Ruben. A Portugese Lady"
A List of Sir Peter Lely"s Great Collection of Pictures, and other Rarities, as Statues, Bronzes, & c. The Pictures being all of the most Eminent Italian, and other Masters, in good Condition, and well Preserved, with Gilt Frames, to be Sold by way of Outcry, upon the Eighteenth day of April 1682 Old Stile, Richard Tomson auction, sale at Sir Peter Lely"s house at the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, London on 18 April 1682 as ‘Rubens, The Picture of Reubens Wife, 3 ft. 8 in. x 2ft. 7 in
Brian Fairfax, A Catalogue of the curious collection of pictures of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham [...], also, a catalogue of Sir Peter Lely"s capital collection of 15 pictures, statues, bronzes, &c. with the exact measures of the pictures in both collections, W. Bathoe, (ed.) London, 1758, p. 44, as no. 55. ‘Rubens, Rubens"s wife, 3ft. 8" x 2ft. 7"
W. Fairchild et al., Stowe, A Description of the Magnificent House and Gardens of the Right Honourable Richard, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham, 1763, p. 9, in the Dressing-room, ‘over one door A Portrait of Rubens"s wife, by Rubens
The new Oxford guide, or Companion through the University: exhibiting every particular worthy the observation of the curious in each of the public buildings, colleges, halls. Oxford 1765, p.113 as ‘A Portrait of Rubens"s wife, by Rubens" (Stowe House)
The London magazine, or Gentleman"s monthly intelligencer" 1771, V. 40, p. 459, described in the Private Drawing-Room at Stowe House as ‘Rubens, his first wife"
B. Seeley, Stowe, a Description of the Magnificent House and Gardens of the Right…, 1780, p. 37, in the State Drawing-Room as ‘A Portrait of Rubens"s wife, by Rubens
B. Seeley, Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, Richard Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, Marquess of Buckingham, 1817, p. 46, in the Anti-Library as ‘Helena Forman (Rubens"s wife) by Rubens
J. & W. Robins, George Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, Vol. 3, 1847, p. 97, as ‘Helena Forman, Rubens"s Wife, by Rubens
Henry Rumsey Forster, Stowe catalogue, priced and annotated, Christie, Manson & Woods, London 1848, p. 180, as no. 337. ‘Helena Forman (Rubens) - A very fine portrait of Rubens" favourite wife"
Temple Bar - A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers" 1874, Vol. 41, p. 107 (as a Rubens")
Louis Dumont-Wilden, ‘Exposition de l"Art Belge au XVIIe siecle a Bruxelles", "Les Arts: revue mensuelle des musées, collections, expositions" 1910, No. 106, ill. full-page, p. 3, as ‘Rubens, Isabelle Brandt
Exposition d"art ancien; l"art belge au XVIIe siecle, Bruxelles, juin-novembre 1910
Catalogue sommaire des envois a la date du 9 juin 1910
Wallace L. Crowdy, H. Frantz, O. M. Heuffer, The Spinola Rubens: an appreciation, Edinburgh, 1911, p. 15 ‘the extremely fine and famous Portrait of Isabella Brandt, which belongs to M. Jules Porges of Paris
Rassegna d"Arte" 1911, no. 3, p. 49, ill., as ‘Rubens, Isabella Brandt, Collezione Porges, Parigi"
L"Art et les artistes" 1911, V. XIII, p. 244"
Camille Tulpinck, Les arts anciens de Flandre, Bruges, 1912, p. 19 as a Rubens ‘sa premiere femme, Isabelle Brant (collection Jules Porges, Paris)
Ludwig Burchard, “Nachträge”, in: G. Glück, Rubens, Van Dyck und ihr Kreis, Wien 1933, p. 38 (as after Rubens, Portrait of Isabella Brant)
Leo van Puyvelde, ‘Les Portraits des Femmes de Rubens", La Revue de l"art ancien et moderne, 1937, Vol. LXXI, p. 3"
Editorial: Sir Peter Lely"s Collection, "The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs" 1943, 83 (485), p. 187 as ‘Rubens, The Picture of Reubens Wife, 3 ft. 8 in. x 2ft. 7 in"
Cent Portraits de Femmes, ou, pour qui peignez-vou?, "Les Lettres françaises" 1950, (16 January, ill)
Elle" Magazine, 25 November 1957, ill"
Leo van Puyvelde (ed.), Le siecle de Rubens (exh. cat.), Brussels, 1965, p. 197, no. 207, (ill.) as ‘Rubens 207. Portrait d"Isabelle Brandt
Jan Kelch, Peter Paul Rubens. Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde im Besitz der Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Berlin 1978, p. 16 (as studio of Rubens, Portrait of Isabella Brant)
Justus Müller Hofstede, Höfische Und Bürgerlische Damenporträts - Anmerkungen Zu Rubens" Antwerpener Bildnismalerei 1609-1620, Munich 1983, p. 321, n. 66 (as studio of Rubens")
John Ingamells, The Wallace Collection: catalogue of pictures, London 1985, pp. 333, 335, n.11 (as ‘Portrait of Isabella Brant)
Michael Jaffé, Rubens, Catalogo Completo, Milan, 1989, p. 262 as no. 654 (as Ruben"s studio, Portrait of Isabella Brant")
Katlijne Van der Stighelen and Hans Vlieghe, Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, V. XIX (2), 2021, pp. 177-178, no. 197, copy 3, as "A Woman, Turned to the Left" (as a variant of the Mauritshuis portrait)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
Portrait of a Lady, circa 1620-1625
oil/canvas, 98 x 73.8 cm
on the stretcher inscribed in ink: "RUBENS" Wife, by RUBENS | THE CHANDOS PORTRAIT | PURCHASED AT THE DUKE OF Buckingham"s SALE | AT STOWE", an exhibition label of Galerie Charpentier in Paris, an inventory number: "NYAE896" and renovator"s studio label
The artwork executed in Rubens"s studio in Antwerp by the artist with the participation of the workshop circa 1620-1625.
