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About the Artwork

Portrait of a Woman

early 17th century

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Spanish

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 27 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (69.9 × 58.7 cm) Framed: 37 1/4 × 33 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches (94.6 × 85.7 × 10.5 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Gift of the Earhart Foundation

69.259

Public Domain

Markings

Inscribed, on stretcher: This is the property of Lord Dungannon

Provenance

Dungannon collection (County Tyrone, Ireland);
Viscount Dungannon collection (Shropshire, Market Drayton, England);
Henry Reginald Corbet, Esq. (Adderly Hall, Market Drayton, England);
May 15, 1923, auction of Reginal Corbet, Esq. collection by (Sotheby's, London, England), lot 60.
1924, (Alfred L. Nicholson, London, England).
(A. Siegfried Aram Gallery, New York, New York, USA).
possibly ca. 1925, (E[h]rich Galleries, New York, New York, USA).
Harry Boyd Earhart Foundation (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA);
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Burlington Magazine 45, no. 256 (July 1924): p. 2, (repr.) [attributed to Velázquez; it illustrates editorial but there is no written reference to the work].

Mayer, August L. Zeitschrift fur bildende Kunst, vol. 11924. p. 24 (ill.) [attributed to Velazquez].

Mayer, A. L. Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings. London, 1936, p. 135, no. 568, (pl. 186) [property of A. L. Nicholson; as by Velázquez].

Soria, M.S. "José Leonardo, Velázquez's Best Disciple." Art Quarterly 13, no. 4 (1950): pp. 270, 273-274, no. 20 [attributed to Jusepe Leonardo].

López-Rey, J. Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Oeuvre. London, 1963, p. 332, no. 607, (pl. 433) [not by Velázquez].

Mazón de la Torre, M.A. Jusepe Leonardo y su tiempo. Saragossa [Zaragoza], 1977, pp. 192-194, (fig. 8) [as by Jusepe Leonardo].

The Soul of Spain. Exh. cat., Albuquerque Museum. Albuquerque, 2005, pp. 178-179, cat. 41, (repr.) [as unknown artist].

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Spanish, Portrait of a Woman, early 17th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Earhart Foundation, 69.259.

Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Woman