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SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)
Portrait of a lady, probably Isabella Brant (1591-1626), as a shepherdess
oil on panel
26 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (66.6 x 52.4 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) with the Antwerp picture dealers Pilaer and Beeckmans in 1785 (a letter dated 5 August 1785 describes the work as ‘Nous venons de faire la plus belle acquisition possible d’un beau Rubens, c’est le portrait de Helena Froment (sic),…elle est vêtue en bergère avec un chapeau de paille, on voit le corps en profil et elle a la tête tournée aux spectateurs…et paraît être peinte à l'âge de 16 à 18 ans…’ [mss. in the Rembrandt-Huis, Amsterdam]), by whom sold on 23 October 1785 to,
(Probably) M. Dulac (probably the dealer Daignez-Dulac], Paris.
Jean Gilles Marie Joseph Schamp d'Aveschoot (1765-1839), Ghent, by 1830; his sale (†), van Regemorter, Ghent, 14 September 1840, lot C (unsold), by descent in the Schamp d’Averschoot family.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné?of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, II, London, 1830, p. 261, no. 882, as depicting Helena Fourment; Supplement, IX, 1842, p. 272, no. 103, as a copy.
M. Rooses, L’Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens: Histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, IV, Antwerp, 1890, p. 182, under no. 953, as a copy depicting Susanna Fourment.
L. Burchard, Nachtrage, in G. Glück, Rubens, van Dyck und ihr Kreis, Vienna, 1933, p. 389, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
H. Vlieghe, ‘Une grande collection anversoise du dix-septième siècle: le cabinet d'Arnold Lunden, beau-frère de Rubens’, Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, XIX, 1977, pp. 190-191, fig. 13, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
W. Sauerlander, ‘Review of the Antwerp exhibition of 1977’, Pantheon, XXXV, 1977, p. 340, as depicting Susanna Fourment(?) and possibly by Rubens.
M. Jaffé, ‘Exhibitions for the Rubens Year-I’, The Burlington Magazine, CXIX, 1977, p. 625, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
K. Renger, ‘Review of Rubens Drawings and Sketches (The British Museum, London) and Peter Paul Rubens (Kunsthalle, Cologne)', Kunstchronik, XXXI, 1978, p. 5, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
J. Foucart, ‘Rubens: l’année du quadricentenaire’, in Encyclopedia Universalis, 1978, p. 512, as possibly a copy.
H. Vlieghe, ‘Some Remarks on the Identification of the Sitters in Rubens Portraits’, The Ringling Museum of Art Journal, 1983, pp. 107-108, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: XIX(2): Portraits of Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp, London, 1987, pp. 105-107, no. 101, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
K. Van der Stighelen and H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: XIX(3): Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp, Turnhout, 2021, pp. 54, 64-65, note 141, as Susanna Fourment.
Exhibited
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, PP. Rubens, Schilderijen, olieverfschetsen, tekeningen, 29 June-30 September 1977, no. 59, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de San Carlos and Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Rubens e il Suo Secolo, 5 November 1998-27 June 1999, no. 14, as depicting Susanna Fourment.
Brussels, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rubens et l’atelier du Génie, 14 September 2007-27 January 2008, no. 30.
Antwerp, Rubenshuis, Rubens in Private: The Master Portrays his Family, 28 March-28 June 2015, no. 20, where dated 1615(?).