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The image shows a woman from the waist up. She is turned slightly to her right, looking straight at the viewer. She has fair skin, round cheeks, and a gentle gaze. Her hair is styled back in soft curls or waves. She is wearing a garment with a pale bodice and a layer of rich blue fabric wrapped around her shoulders. Her right hand is raised, holding the edge of the blue fabric. The background is a smooth, dark, neutral gradient.
National Gallery of Art · Painting
Anna de Peyster (?)
Frans van Doornik
- Date
- 1731
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall (oval): 76.5 x 60.7 cm (30 1/8 x 23 7/8 in.) framed: 92.4 x 77.8 cm (36 3/8 x 30 5/8 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 1963.10.134
- Credit line
- Chester Dale Collection
- Time span
- 1726 to 1750
- Department
- CNE-B
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- Baroque
- Flemish
- female
- portrait
- intentionally not assigned
- Peyster, Anna de
Provenance
Colonel Henry Thomas Chapman, Jr. [1837-1912], Brooklyn, by 1897 until at least 1911;[1]; (his estate sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 27-29 January 1913, 3rd day, no. 358, as _Portrait of Ann De Peyster_). (Ehrich Galleries, New York), at least in 1930.[2] private collection;[3] (sale, Plaza Art Galleries, New York, 13 April 1938, no. 57, same lot as NGA 1963.10.135, bought in); purchased through (Cornelius Michaelsen Gallery, New York) by Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA. [1] Chapman lent this and NGA 1963.10.135 to the Brooklyn Museum until January 1911 (letter of 28 April 1938 from John I.H. Baur to Mary Bullard, copy in NGA curatorial files). [2] The Frick Art Reference Library in New York purchased photographs of NGA 1963.10.134 and .135 from Ferargil Galleries in New York in 1944. The notes that accompanied the photographs had been sent to Ferargil in December 1930 by Ehrich Galleries, when the latter offered the pair of portraits for sale to Ferargil. (Letter of 24 January 1956 from Mrs. Henry W. Howell, Jr., to Mrs. William Sawitzky, sent to John Walker and in NGA curatorial files) [3] Notes in the Chester Dale collection records (copy in NGA curatorial files) indicate that the consignor to the 1938 sale bought the two portraits (this and NGA 1963.10.135) from Colonel Chapman or his son.
Inscription
center left: F.V. Doornik. f 1731
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