Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
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Lot 147 Property from a Noble Rhenish Baroque Castle (lots 67-68, 146-168)

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Portrait of Magdalena, Countess Palatine of Neuburg and Dutchess of Jülich-Berg (1587-1628), half-length, in a red bejewelled dress with silver embroidery, a lace ruff and a jewel-encrusted headdress

Closed2 October 2013

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Follower of Peter Candid
Portrait of Magdalena, Countess Palatine of Neuburg and Dutchess of Jülich-Berg (1587-1628), half-length, in a red bejewelled dress with silver embroidery, a lace ruff and a jewel-encrusted headdress
inscribed 'MAGDALENA DVCISSA BAVWOLF GVILELMI PALAT. DVCIS NEOBVRG· CONVNX' (upper centre)
oil on panel
29 3/8 x 21 in. (74.6 x 53.1 cm.)

Specialist note

The youngest child of William V, Duke of Bavaria Magdalena married Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, a friend of her brother Maximilian, in 1613. She died aged 41, and was burried in the newly erected crypt of the Jesuite church in Neuburg.