Live Auction 2282Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors
Follower of Leonardo da Vinci
Lot 176 Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Saint Louis Art Museum

Follower of Leonardo da Vinci

Portrait of a young lady in a gold silk dress

Closed27 January 2010

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USD 80,500

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Follower of Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of a young lady in a gold silk dress
oil on panel
23 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (60.6 x 50.5 cm.)

with V.G. Fischer Art Galleries, New York, by February 1913, when acquired by
Otto H. Kahn, New York.
with Ehrich Galleries, New York, by February 1921, when purchased by the
Saint Louis Art Museum.

Specialist note

The present painting belongs to a small group of works by an anonymous Leonardesque artist now commonly referred to as the Master of the Vierge aux Balances after the work in the Louvre. This painter, a close follower of the style of Leonardo's second Milanese period, has been linked to two other portraits, the first in the Kress Collection (South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art; F.R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1968, K1558, fig. 320) and the other formerly in the d'Eichtal Collection, Paris. Works from this group have previously been ascribed to Boltraffio, Bernardino de'Conti and Ambrogio de Predis.