About This Artwork

Antonis Mor, follower of
Netherlandish, 1516/21-1575/77

Portrait of a Court Lady, 1560/70

Oil on canvas
95.8 x 77 cm (37 3/4 x 30 5/16 in.)
Gift of Chester Dale, 1951.314

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings by Old Masters, 1929, no. 25.

New York, Ehrich Galleries, Comparative Portrait Exhibition of Paintings by Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish, French, English and American Old Masters, 1931, no. 9.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 267-70, ill.

Publication History

“Comparative Portrait Exhibition: Ehrich Galleries,” Art News 29, 15 (1931), p. 10.

Georges Marlier, Anthonis Mor van Dashorst (Antonio Moro), Brussels, 1934, p. 107, no. 85.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 338.

Joanna Woodall, “The Portraiture of Antonis Mor,” Ph.D. diss., University of London, 1990, pp. 555, 649, under no. 46.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 267-70, ill.

Ownership History

Marchese Alessandro Pallavicino, Duke Grimaldi; sold, Galerie Sangiorgi, Palazzo Pallavicino-Grimaldi, Genoa, Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 1899, no. 276, as Venetian School, to Murray [according to annotated catalogue at the library of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.]; Charles Fairfax Murray, London, from 1899; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 15, 1914, no. 21 [according to annotated catalogue at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]. Julius Weitzner, London, by 1928; sold to Ehrich Galleries, New York, May 1928 [according to the Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.];sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Apr. 2, 1931, no. 66 (ill.), to John Levy Galleries; sold to Ehrich Galleries [Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art]; sold, American Art Association, Apr. 18–19, 1934, no. 43, to Chester Dale, New York, for $450 [Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.