Lot 25: JAN ALBERTSZ. ROTIUS MEDEMBLIK 1624 - 1666 HOORN

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY, SAID TO BE ELISABETH WYBO, AT THE AGE OF 17, HALF LENGTH, WEARING A GOLD NECKLACE AND A WHITE HEADDRESS

measurements note
70.7 by 55 cm.; 27 7/8 by 21 3/4 in.

signed and dated upper left: Ætatis Sua 17, Aυo 1646./ Rotius ft.

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Mevr. Wed. Quarin Willemier Collection (née Weegeman Guldemont), Utrecht;
Van Bredeoff de Vicq van Oosthuizen Collection, Wageningen;
Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Huis-te-Hoevelaken Collection, Netherlands;
His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 1 April 1960, lot 39, for £1,800 to Knoedler;
With Galerie Knoedler, Paris.

EXHIBITED

Utrecht, Tentoonstelling Oude schilderkunst te Utrecht, 20 August - 1 October 1894, no. 421 (where a coat-of-arms is mentioned at the upper left, beneath the inscription and signature).

LITERATURE

A. Bredius, "Ausstellung ältere Gemälde in Utrecht. Die Bilder aus der Blühtezeit der holländischen Malerei", in Repertorium Für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. XVII, 1894, no. 5, p. 417;
E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, Part II, Amsterdam 1905, p. 651, no. 9300;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. II, Vienna and Leipzig 1910, p. 471;
H.F. Wijnman, in Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, Part 8, Leiden 1930, col. 1277, no. 1;
B.J.A. Renckens, "De Hoornse Portretschilder Jan. Albertsz. Rotius", in Nederlandsch Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. II, 1948-49, The Hague 1949, p. 221-2, no. 27.

NOTE

The presumed sitter, Elisabeth Wybo (1629-1649), was the first wife of Adriaen van Bredehoff (1617-1649), an important magistrate in Hoorn.

This work may be compared with another portrait painted by the artist in 1646, of a young girl aged 11, that sold London, Phillips, 8 December 1992, lot 82. The portraits are of exactly the same size and the 11-year-old wears an extremely similar dress, bow, necklace and headdress (minus the veil), as well as sharing some of this little girl's facial features, including her rather low jaw.