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Portrait of a Court Lady

Follower of Antonis Mor

1565

oil

canvas

From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago

Mannerism Renaissance Renaissance Portrait

Dominant colour

About this work

The painting shows a woman dressed in fancy clothes, sitting in a chair. She looks straight at us with a calm face. The woman's dress and jewelry suggest she's a lady of high rank, which makes this painting interesting because it gives us a glimpse into the life of wealthy people in the past. The details in her clothes and the way she's sitting tell us about her status. The artist paid close attention to these details to show her importance. To learn more about this style of painting, look into the technique of glazing.

The story of this work

Provenance

Marchese Alessandro Pallavicino, Duke Grimaldi; sold, Galerie Sangiorgi, Palazzo Pallavicino-Grimaldi, Genoa, Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 1899, no. 276, as Venetian School, to Murray [according to annotated catalogue at the library of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.]; Charles Fairfax Murray, London, from 1899; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 15, 1914, no. 21 [according to annotated catalogue at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]. Julius Weitzner, London, by 1928; sold to Ehrich Galleries, New York, May 1928 [according to the Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art,…

Exhibition history

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings by Old Masters, 1929, no. 25. New York, Ehrich Galleries, Comparative Portrait Exhibition of Paintings by Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish, French, English and American Old Masters, 1931, no. 9. Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 267-70, ill.

Publication history

“Comparative Portrait Exhibition: Ehrich Galleries,” Art News 29, 15 (1931), p. 10. Georges Marlier, Anthonis Mor van Dashorst (Antonio Moro), Brussels, 1934, p. 107, no. 85. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 338. Joanna Woodall, “The Portraiture of Antonis Mor,” Ph.D. diss., University of London, 1990, pp. 555, 649, under no. 46. Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 267-70, ill.

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