Portrait of a Lady

1. Probably English private collection [W.R. Valentiner stated that it came from an English collection in an expertise dated 16 April 1923 in the curatorial file]; Steinmeyer, Lucerne, by 1921 [see Valentiner 1921]. Henry Reinhardt & Sons, Inc., New York, by 1923 [see letter from Reinhardt to Max Epstein dated 24 April 1923 in curatorial file]; sold to Max Epstein, Chicago, probably in 1923 (died 1954); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings from El Greco and Rembrandt to Cézanne and Matisse, 15 Jan. - 29 Jan. 1927, cat. no. 4 (ill.).
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Dutch Art, 1450-1900, Jan. 4 – Mar. 9, 1929, cat. no. 348
• Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, Jan. 10 – Feb. 28, 1935, cat. no. 25.
• Chicago, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Max Epstein Memorial Exhibition, May 3 - May 14, 1955, cat. no. 7.

• W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart, 1921), 199 (ill.), 318.
• Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), 2nd, rev. ed. (Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart, 1923), 128 (ill.), 315.
• Max Epstein, Old Masters in the Collection of Max Epstein (Chicago: n.p., 1928), n.p. (ill.).
• Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Paintings by Frans Hals in the United States,” The Antiquarian 13 no. 2 (September 1929): 33 (ill.), 88, 90.
• Charles Holms, Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January - March 1929 (London: Oxford University Press, 1930), xxv, and cat. no. 348.
• Franz Dülberg, Frans Hals: Ein Leben und ein Werk (Stuttgart: Paul Neff Verlag, 1930), 117.
• W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America (Westport, CT: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1936), 11, no. 43 (ill.).
• Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 209.
• Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 no. 55 (September 1966): 203.
• Marigene Butler, “Portrait of a Lady by Frans Hals,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970): 6-21, figs. 1-9.
• C.C. Cunningham, “Note on a Portrait of a Lady by Frans Hals,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970): 5.
• Seymour Slive, Frans Hals (London: Phaidon, 1970-[74]), vol. 1, 185; vol. 2, pl. 77; vol. 3, cat. no. 52.

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