Live Auction 7887Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours (Evening Sale)
Bartholomeus van der Helst (Haarlem 1613-1670)
Lot 23 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (lots 22 & 23)

Bartholomeus van der Helst (Haarlem 1613-1670)

Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, seated, before a balustrade, holding a fan, a landscape with bleaching fields and a view out to sea beyond

Closed7 December 2010

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GBP 301,250

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Bartholomeus van der Helst (Haarlem 1613-1670)
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, seated, before a balustrade, holding a fan, a landscape with bleaching fields and a view out to sea beyond
signed and dated 'B. vander.helst 1655' (on the stone balustrade, lower left)
oil on canvas
44 x 37 7/8 in. (111.7 x 96.2 cm.)

Jean-Robert Tronchin Boissier (1710-1793), Procureur-Général of Geneva, by 1777, when recorded by his brother François Tronchin in a list of the most important paintings in Geneva collections, 'Tronchin Boissier, Un bourguemestre et sa femme, pendans de Barthelemy van der Helst. Les fonds de Jaq. Ruysdaal', and by inheritance to form part of the
Cabinet de Bessinge, near Geneva, acquired en bloc in 1938, by
Xavier Givaudan, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

For the catalogue note for this lot, please see lot 22 in this sale.