TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES, 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY

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Lot 107 | TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES, 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY
TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES, 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY

By Isaac Oliver (c. 1565-1617) and John Hoskins (c. 1590-1665)

A gentleman in black doublet and lace ruff; together with a lady in black dress with white ruff; blue backgrounds

the former, inscribed in gold 'An. Domni. 1595. AEtatis 25'; the latter, signed with gold monogram IH (mid-left)

On vellum

both 2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) high

Ovals, in enameled gold locket frames





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940 (ERR no. R 2481 a, b).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/42).

Returned to France on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905, (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol: 'Deux médaillons miniatures fond bleu peint homme et femme collerettes - XVIIe siècle estimés trois cent francs').
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