LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ebony

Measurements:

64.96 in. (165.00 cm.) (height) by 43.31 in. (110.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

two main panels with marks MV and MD/B, on a later ebonised stand

Exhibited:

Preferirei di no' Cinque stanze tra arte e depressione , 29 April - 3 July 1994, Venice, Museo Correr, ill. in ex. cat. p.86. . The Fascinating Faces of Flanders Through Art and Society , 20 June - 25 October 1998, Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém. . The Fascinating Faces of Flanders Through Art and Society , 21 November - 21 February 1999, Antwerp, Hessenhuis

Literature:

M. Riccardi-Cubitt, 'The Duke of Buckingham's "cabinet d'amateur": An aesthetic, religious and political statement',. The British Art Journal , Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 77-86. M. Riccardi-Cubitt, 'Theatrum Mundi',. The Antique Collector , Vol. 64, No. 8, 1993, pp.62-66, ill. M. Riccardi-Cubitt,. The Art of the Cabinet , Thames and Hudson ed., London, 1992, p.62, cat. no. 31, ill., p.82 ill., p.176. A. Scarpa Sonino,. Cabinet d'Amateur , Milan, 1992, p. 11, ill. . Country Life , September 1993, p.89

Provenance:

Probably commissioned by Georges Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687);. Possibly acquired by George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie (1730-1787);. Colstoun House, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland;. Thence by descent until sold by the Executors of the late Colin Broun Lindsay (1926-1989), Sotheby's London,. Important Continental Furniture , 14 June 1991, lot 17;. With Chaucer Fine Arts, London;. European Private Collection