Live Auction 8390GUINEVERE: Celebrating Fifty Years
Flemish School, 1614
Lot 171

Flemish School, 1614

Flemish School, 1614

Closed19 March 2013

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GBP 21,250

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Flemish School, 1614
Portrait of a lady, identified as Maria Schlechuber (c.1594-1674), half-length, in a black embroidered dress with slashed sleeves and a ruff, wearing a necklace with a pendant with Saint Michael, holding a carnation and a wreath, a golden rosary on the draped table
oil on panel
37½ x 28 3/8 in. (95.2 x 72.2 cm.)
inscribed 'AETAT: 20· /AÑO· 1614·' ('AE' linked, upper left), and with the sitter's coat-of-arms

Specialist note

Maria Schlechuber (c.1594-1674) would have been aged twenty in 1614, and this portrait was possibly commissioned to commemorate her betrothal as the coat of arms depicted to the upper corner are those of her husband Andreas Ligsalz zu Ascholding's family. There is much iconography incorporated into the work to corroborate this suggestion such as the pink carnation and wreath of rosemary she carries. What is undenyably apparent is the high status of the sitter; it is probable that Maria would have attended the Bavarian Court at Munich as her Husband was Mayor of the city and this costume is commensurate with that.