Jan Victors
Portrait of a young woman, half-length, dressed in a gold-embroidered dress, wearing a tiara and holding flowers in her left hand
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Jan Victors
Amsterdam 1619–after 1676 East Indies
Portrait of a young woman, half-length, dressed in a gold-embroidered dress, wearing a tiara and holding flowers in her left hand
oil on oak panel, probably a fragment
50 x 44 cm.; 19¾ x 17⅜ in.
John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745–99), 1770 (inscribed on a label on the reverse: ‘This Picture Painted by Rembrandt / was by the Pope’s Nunzio brought from / Flanders to Rome and then Purchased by his Grace the Duke of Dorset 1770’);
Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson Bt (1840–1929), South Africa;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1923, lot 82 (as school of Rembrandt), for £441 to Maitin, but in fact bought back;
Thence by descent to his daughter, Ida, Princess Labia (1879–1961), who married Prince Natale Teodato Labia, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa, from 1928;
Thence by descent to their son Count Natale Labia (1924–2016), Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa;
By whom sold (‘Property from a collection formed by Sir Joseph Robinson, Bart.’), London, Sotheby’s, 14 December 2000, lot 168 (as Pieter Harmensz. Verelst, the attribution corrected to Jan Victors in a saleroom notice);
Where acquired.
London, Robinson Collection, 1948, no. 25 (according to Sumowski);
London, Royal Academy, The Robinson Collection, 1958, no. 10 (as attributed to Rembrandt, datable to circa 1634);
Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Joseph Robinson Collection, 1959, no. 55 (as attributed to Rembrandt);
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson, 1840–1929, 17 August – 16 September 1962, no. 36 (as Rembrandt);
On loan, Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa (lent by Natale Labia; as Jan Victors).
The Tunbridge Wells Guide, Tunbridge Wells 1780, p. XII (‘A list of the pictures at Knowle: A queen, by Rembrandt’);
A. Scharf, ‘The Robinson Collection’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. C, no. 666, September 1958, p. 304, reproduced fig. 7 (as ‘Flora’, a fragment, circle of Rembrandt, mid-1630s);
H. Shipp, ‘Treasures of the Robinson Collection: Some problems of attribution’, in Apollo, vol. LXVIII, no. 402, August 1958, p. 41 (as not by Rembrandt);
D. Miller, Jan Victors 1619–1676, unpublished diss., University of Delaware, 1985, vol. I, p. 343, no. R 17 (as ‘A lady as Flora’, under Catalogue C: Rejected Attributions);
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. V, p. 3117, no. 2165, reproduced p. 3315 (as Pieter Verelst).
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