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| Title | Portrait of a Lady | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): The Burrell Collection | |
| Artist | Attributed to Dutch School Previously attributed to Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den (Dutch painter, printmaker, 1621-1674) Previously attributed to Loo, Jacob van (Dutch painter, 1614-1670) Previously attributed to Metsu, Gabriel (Dutch painter, 1629-1667) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1700 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1750 | |
| Description | Half-length portrait or study of a lady, her body half turned to the proper left; her face seen in three-quarters from the right (the perspective of the proper left eye not completely convincing). She wears a white cap or headdress, an earring of pearl drops, a thin band or chain around her neck and a white chemise. Over this is her fur-lined jacket, the sleeve tied with ribbons, which with elegant hands she holds open at the front in an apparently significant gesture. | |
| Current Accession Number | 35.292 | |
| Former Accession Number | 269 | |
| Subject | portrait; figure | |
| Measurements | 82.5 x 64.8 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Sir William and Lady Burrell 1944. | |
| Provenance | ‘A Gentleman' (Farrer, et al.) sale, Christie's, London, 23 March 1912, lot 79, as by ‘G. Metzu', bought by Frederick Anthony White, 170 Queen's Gate, London, £130; Frederick Anthony White sale, Christie's, London, 20 April 1934, lot 112, as by ‘Ludolf de Jongh', bought by Tomàs Harris, 95gns (£104.15s.)], for Sir William Burrell (1861-1958). | |
| Principal Exhibitions | The Burrell Collection loan exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1924. | |
| Publications | Lloyd Williams, J., Dutch Art in Scotland, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Scotland), Edinburgh, 1992, p. 160. | |
| Notes | W. L. van der Watering 1982 (letter on file): 'by Jacob van Loo'; A. Rüger 2003 (oral communication): 'probably 18th century'; W. Liedtke 2003 (oral communication): '18th century: no 17th-century portrait like this'. | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Robert Wenley | |