Live Auction 3063Old Masters & 19th Century Art - (including Dutch Impressionism)
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Lot 84

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Portrait of Jeanne, Duchess d'Arschot (, three-quarter length, in a white dress with puffed sleeves, a black cloak embroidered with pearls and white lace ruff and cuffs, standing by a table covered with crimson cloth, a wall curtain embroidered with the coats-of-arms of De Croy and De Chastillon behind

Closed25 May 2016

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Follower of Frans Pourbus
Portrait of Jeanne, Duchess d'Arschot (, three-quarter length, in a white dress with puffed sleeves, a black cloak embroidered with pearls and white lace ruff and cuffs, standing by a table covered with crimson cloth, a wall curtain embroidered with the coats-of-arms of De Croy and De Chastillon behind
oil on canvas
127.7 x 101.6 cm.

The Earl of Halifax; His sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 1947, lot 100, as Gheeraerdts (25gns. to Bellamy).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 May 1989, lot 182.

Specialist note

The sitter was the daughter of Louis de Blois, Seigneur of Trêlon. She became the second wife of Philippe de Croy (1526-1595), Duc d'Arschot, who was a knight of the Golden Fleece, in 1582. A detailed account of the de Croy family is given in de Courcelles, Histoire des Pairs de France, Vol. VIII, 1827.