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Cornelis van der Voort (Antwerp 1576-1624 Amsterdam) and Dutch School, 1605
Lot 323

Cornelis van der Voort (Antwerp 1576-1624 Amsterdam) and Dutch School, 1605

Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a black costume with white ruff, holding a pair of gloves; and Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a black and red embroidered dress and white ruff, a gold chain with a pomander around her waist

Closed22 June 2011

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Cornelis van der Voort (Antwerp 1576-1624 Amsterdam) and Dutch School, 1605
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a black costume with white ruff, holding a pair of gloves; and Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a black and red embroidered dress and white ruff, a gold chain with a pomander around her waist
the first inscribed with the sitter's age and dated: 'AEtatis. Suae 49 Anno.1609' (upper right); the second inscribed with the sitter's age and dated: 'AEtatis Suae 27 Anno 1605' (upper left)
oil on panel
89.8 x 74.3 cm. (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 February 1981, lot 13, as 'J.W. Delft'.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2004, lot 265.

Specialist note

According to the Sotheby's catalogue of 2004 Dr. R.E.O Ekkart of the RKD, The Hague, confirmed the attribution of the male portrait to Cornelis van der Voort, by whom it is a youthful work (on the basis of a colour transparency). Dr. Ekkart believes that the female portrait belongs to an earlier Dutch tradition of portraiture, and is stylistically unconnected with her male companion.