Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
ATTRIBUTED TO LODEWIJK VAN DER HELST
Amsterdam 1642 - after 1683
PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HALF LENGTH, FACING LEFT, IN A WHITE RUFF
bears signature lower left: B. vander. helst.f.
oil on panel
panel: 28 ½ by 23 in.; 72.4 by 58.4 cm.
framed: 35¾ by 30½ in.; 90.8 by 77.5 cm.
Condition Report
Cataloguing
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 March 1950, lot 49 (as Van der Helst);
Private collection, Los Angeles, by 1976;
With Lane Fine Art, London;
From whom acquired.
Literature
J. van Ghent, Bartholomeus van der Helst (circa 1613-1670): een studie naar zijn leven en zijn werk, Zwolle 2011, p. 355, cat. no. A30, reproduced (under rejected attributions).
Catalogue Note
Lodewijck van der Helst trained with his father, Bartholomeus van der Helst, whose influence is recognizable in this painting. It is likely that the picture was originally signed L. vander. helst.f. and then later amended to read B [1].
1. A test conducted by an outside restorer confirmed the signature is from the 17th century.
