LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

62.28 in. (158.20 cm.) (height) by 42.76 in. (108.60 cm.) (width)

Literature:

O. Millar, in S.J. Barnes, et. al., Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 556, no. IV.163.

Provenance:

Commissioned for the Stadtholder’s court at The Hague, in 1641, presumably by or for the sitter’s husband, William II, Prince of Orange (1626–1650); possibly recorded in the 1654 inventory of the collection of the sitter’s mother-in-law, Amalia van Solms (1602-1675), at Huis ten Bosch, The Hague, as ‘Een schilderije van princesse royale, mede bij Van Dijck gedaen’; possibly recorded in the 1695 inventory of the Stadtholder’s collection at the Oranienstein Palace, as ���2 grosze stücke presentirend printz Wilhelm der 2te von Oranien und desen frau, die princessin royale, in lebensgrösze’. J. Gadney; Sotheby’s, London, 15 December 1976, lot 59. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 17 November 1989, lot 41, when acquired by the present owner.