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Corneille de Lyon and Workshop

Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a blue dress and holding a puppy

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Corneille de Lyon and Workshop

The Hague 1500/10–1575 Lyon

Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a blue dress and holding a puppy


oil on oak panel

16.7 x 14.1 cm.; 6⅝ x 5½ in. 


We are grateful to Mrs Alexandra Zvereva, who endorsed the authentication of this painting to Corneille de Lyon and his workshop after first-hand inspection. 

Probably private collection, Paris, 1953 (according to Sterling, see Literature);

Lambert collection, New York;

Anonymous sale (‘From a Private Collection’), New York, Christie’s, 2 June 1988, lot 114 (as attributed to Corneille de Lyon), for $209,000;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 13 December 2000, lot 55 (as Corneille de Lyon);

Where acquired.

Probably C. Sterling, Musée de l’Ermitage. La peinture française de Poussin à nos jours, Paris 1957, p. 214, note 18bis (as a workshop replica);

A. Dubois de Groër, Corneille de la Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon, Paris 1996, p. 120, no. 16A, reproduced.