Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Pieter Soutman (Haarlem 1593/1601-1657)
Lot 139

Pieter Soutman (Haarlem 1593/1601-1657)

Portrait of Anne of Austria, bust-length, after Rubens

Closed13 May 2015

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EUR 4,750

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Pieter Soutman (Haarlem 1593/1601-1657)
Portrait of Anne of Austria, bust-length, after Rubens
with inscriptions 'Marie de Medici' and 'koningin van vranckyck' (verso)
black chalk and stumping, touches of brown ink, indented for transfer, oval
24.3 x 17.8 cm.

Specialist note

A study in reverse for an engraving by Jacob Louys (1595-1635) for the book Imperatores Domus Austriacae (1644), published by Pieter Soutman (Hollstein 5) (Fig.1). Soutman made the drawing after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), which is now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (inv. P01689; M. D. Padrón, El siglio de Rubens en el Museo del Prado, Barcelona, 2010, no. 1689).

Fig. 1. Jacob Louys, Anne of Austria, engraving, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.