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HANS MEMLING (SELINGENSTADT 1430-40-1494 BRUGES)

Lot 2
06.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 2 | HANS MEMLING (SELINGENSTADT 1430-40-1494 BRUGES)
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£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
HANS MEMLING (SELINGENSTADT 1430-40-1494 BRUGES)

Portrait of a lady, bust-length

oil on panel

10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (26 x 21 cm.)





Provenance

Johann Hann, Vienna, until 1927.

with Knoedler & Co., New York, 1927, where acquired by the following,

Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), New York.

Edward Stephen Harkness (1874-1940), New York, and by inheritance to his wife,

Mary Stillman Harkness (1874-1950), New York, by whom bequeathed to the following,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 2013, lot 9, as 'Attributed to Hans Memling', where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

M. J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei VI: Memling und Gerard David, Berlin, 1928, p. 132, no. 95, pl. 47.

F. Winkler, 'An Unknown Portrait of a Woman by Memling', Apollo, VII, 1928, p. 12, illustrated.

H. Wehle, 'Paintings Lent from the Harkness Collection', The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XXVIII, 1933, p. 12.

M. J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei XIV: Pieter Bruegel und Nachträge zu den früheren Bänden, Leiden, 1937, p. 103, no. 95.

M.J. Friedländer, 'The Memling Exhibition at Bruges,' The Burlington Magazine, LXXV, no. 438, 1939, p. 123.

C. Eisler, 'Erik Larsen, Les primitifs flamands au Musée Metropolitan de New York, 1960,' Art Bulletin, XLVI, 1964, p. 103.

G. Faggin, L'opera completa di Memling, Milan, 1969, p. 112, no. 119, illustrated.

M. J. Friedländer et al., Early Netherlandish Painting VI: Hans Memling and Gerard David, New York, 1971, I, p. 57, no. 95, pl. 124.

B. Lane, Hans Memling: Werkverzeichnis, Frankfurt, 1980, pp. 18, 20, no .19, illustrated.

K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born in or Before 1865, III, New York, 1980, p. 23 and 125, illustrated.

I. Verhoeven, De chronologie der portretten van Hans Memling, Master's thesis, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, 1985, no. 5.

D. De Vos, Hans Memling: The Complete Works, Ghent, 1994, p. 130, no. 21, illustrated.

M. W. Ainsworth et al., From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1998, p. 409, illustrated, as Attributed to Hans Memling.

T.-H. Borchert, Memling's Portraits, exhibition catalogue, Madrid and Ghent, 2005, p. 177.

L. Campbell, Memling's Portraits, exhibition catalogue, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid and Ghent, 2005, p. 54.

B. G. Lane, Hans Memling: Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges, London, 2009, pp. 112, 240 and 298, nos. 20 and 53, fig. 240.



Exhibited

Bruges, Stedelijk Museum, Memling Tentoonstelling, 22 June-1 October 1939, no. 33.

Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Memling: Rinascimento fiammingo, 11 October 2014-18 January 2015, no. 44.



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Artist:Hans Memling (1430 - 1494)
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