LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

15.51 in. (39.40 cm.) (height) by 13.39 in. (34.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials and dated 'L.B. / 1667' (lower right)

Literature:

J.N. Muxel, Verzeichniss der Bildergallerie seiner Königlichen Hoheit des Prinzen Eugen, Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München, Munich, 1926, p. 41, no. 109. J.D. Passavant, Galerie Leuchtenberg. Gemälde- Sammlung Seiner Kaiserl. Hoheit des Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München, Frankfurt am Main, 1835-1851, p. 24, no. 121, with engraved plate. Leuchtenbergska Tavelsamlingen, Stockholm, 1917, p. 51, no. 52. C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, etc., VIII, London, 1927, p. 275, no. 262.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale [Armand-Fréderic-Ernest Nogaret]; his sale, Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 2 June 1780 (= 1st day), lot 43 (600 francs to Le Brun). Alexandre-Louis Hersant-Destouches; Paris, 21 March 1794, lot 118 (1,800 livres to Vauthier). Prince Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais (1781- 1824), Viceroy of Italy, and later 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg, and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam, son of Empress Joséphine and adopted son of Emperor Napoléon I, commander of the Army of Italy and statesman, by descent to his second son, Maximilian-Eugène-Auguste-Joseph-Napoléon de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852), bequeathed along with the whole Leuchtenberg Collection to his wife, The Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819-1876) (eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I), Munich and subsequently Saint Petersburg, and by descent until 1917. Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, 1917.