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Portrait of a Young Lady

Paulus Moreelse · c. 1620

Provenance

Ownership history

Arnold van Buuren, by 1925; his sale, Mak, Amsterdam, May 26, 1925, lot 92, for 2,000 guilders [price according to Cicerone 1925]. Max Epstein (died 1954), Chicago, by 1928 [see Epstein 1928]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

University of Chicago, Max Epstein Memorial Exhibition, May 3–14, 1955, no. 11.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age, October 15, 2015-January 18, 2016, cat. 50b as Portrait of a Young Woman; Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum, February 27-June 5, 2016 (Salem only).

Literature

“Versteigerung der Sammlung Arnold van Buuren bei A. Mak,” Cicerone, Versteigerungsergebnisse 17 (1925), p. 131, no. 92.
Max Epstein, Old Masters in the Collection of Max Epstein (Chicago, 1928), no pag, ill.
Caroline Henriette de Jonge, Paulus Moreelse: portet- en genreschilder te Utrecht, 1671–1638 (Assen, 1938), p. 98, no. 119, pl. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 339.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 257, 284, ill; rev. eds. (London, 1977); (London, 1987).
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington, D.C., 1986), p. 51.
Ian Wardropper, “Between Art and Nature: Jewelry in the Renaissance,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2, (2000), p. 14, fig. 9.
Eric Domela Nieuwenhuid Nyegaard, “Paulus Moreelse,” vol. 2 (PhD diss., Universiteit Leiden, 2001), p. 405–06, no. SAP46.
Karina H. Corrigan, Jan van Campen and Femke Diercks, eds., Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), 184–87 cat. 50b, as Portrait of a Young Woman.

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