A Portrait of Margret Halseber of Basel. Willem Key
The Lady with the two beards , wearing a white Headdress
oil on panel
31.1 by 26.1 cm.
Provenance
Possibly Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586), Besançon;
Probably Chevalier Francois Xavier de Burtin, Brussels;
Probably his sale, Brussels, 21 July 1819, lot 73 (as by Holbein the Younger);
Probably Van Huerne, Ghent, by 1844;
Probably his sale, Ghent, Dullaert/ Vandervin, 21 October 1844, lot 22 (as by Holbein), for 210 francs;
Private collection, England (as by Hans Holbein the Younger);
With Colnaghi & Co, London (as by Antonio Moro, according to labels on the reverse);
Gustave Becker, London (according to a manuscript note by Friedländer on the back of the photograph at the R.K.D., The Hague);
Miss B. Campe-Becker,
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 13 July 1951, lot 39 (as by Antonio Moro);
Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York;
His sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 5/9 June 1979, lot 75 (as by Willem Key);
Estate of Dr. Samuel Schaefler, New York.
Bibliography
Messager des Sciences historiques et archives des arts de Belgique, vol. 4, 1836, pp. 263-4, lithograph, presumably of the present painting, as by Hans Holbein - Considering the handwritten label, written in French, Brussels 1808, this lithograph may well have been based on the present painting;
Messager des Sciences historiques et archives des arts de Belgique, 1837, p. 526;
A. Castan, Monographie du Palais Granvelle à Besançon, Paris 1867, p. 332;
H. Hymans, Antonio Moro: son oeuvre et son temps, Brussels 1910, p. 163 ("Oeuvre incertaine, autre fois attribué à Holbein" [gravure au trait dans le Messager des Sciences historiques, 1837, page 526], referring to the version in Aachen, although the engraving cited is probably the present version);
A. Koopstra, Schattengalerie - die verlore
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Ein Porträt von Margaret Halseber aus Basel, Willem KeyDie Dame mit den beiden Bärten Kopf und Schultern trägt einen weißen Kopfschmuck
Öl auf Holz
31,1 x 26,1 cm.
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Ένα πορτρέτο της Margaret Halseber της Βασιλείας, Βίλλεμ Κέυ
λάδι στο πάνελ
31,1 επί 26,1 εκ.
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