LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Size Notes:

painted surface: 23.2 by 18.4 cm.

Literature:

M.J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, Vol. 6, Memling und Gerard David, Berlin 1928, p. 132, cat. no. 95, reproduced, plate 47 (as Memling);; F. Winkler, "An Unknown Portrait of a Woman by Memling," in Apollo, 7, January–June 1928, p. 12, reproduced (as Memling);; H. Wehle, "Paintings Lent from the Harkness Collection," in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 28, January 1933, p. 12 (as Memling);; M.J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, Vol. 14, Pieter Bruegel und Nachträge zu den früheren Bänden, Leiden 1937, p. 103, cat. no. 95;; M.J. Friedländer, "The Memling Exhibition at Bruges," in The Burlington Magazine, 75, 1939, p. 123;; C. Eisler, "Erik Larsen, Les primitifs flamands au Musée Metropolitain de New York, 1960", in Art Bulletin, 46, March 1964, p. 103;; G. Faggin, L'opera completa di Memling, Milan 1969, p. 112, cat. no. 119, reproduced (as Memling);; M. J. Friedländer, et al, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 6, Hans Memling and Gerard David, New York 1971, Part 1, p. 57, cat. no. 95, plate 124 (as Memling);; B. Lane, Hans Memling: Werkverzeichnis, Frankfurt 1980, pp. 18, 20, cat. no .19, reproduced;; K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born in or Before 1865, vol. 1. New York 1980, p. 125, reproduced, vol. III, p. 23 (as Memling);; I. Verhoeven, "De chronologie der portretten van Hans Memling." Master's thesis, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels 1985, no. 5; D. De Vos, Hans Memling: The Complete Works, Ghent 1994, p. 130, cat. no. 21, reproduced (where described as probably autograph);; M.W. Ainsworth and K. Christiansen (ed.s), From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York 1998, p. 409, reproduced;; T.-H. Borchert, Memling's Portraits, exhibition catalogue, Madrid and Ghent 2005, p. 177;; L. Campbell, Memling's Portraits, exhibition catalogue, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid and Ghent 2005, p. 54;; B.G. Lane, Hans Memling: Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges, London 2009, p. 112, no. 20, p. 298, no. 53, reproduced fig. 240 (as Memling).

Provenance:

Johann Hahn, Vienna, until 1927; With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1927; By whom sold to Robert Clark, New York; 1927; With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1927; By whom sold to Edward Harkness, New York; Thence by descent to Mary Stillman Harkness; Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1950, inv. no. 50.145.28.