Portrait of a Court Lady

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1560/70

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

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Anthonis Mor
Title: Portrait of a Court Lady
Origin: Netherlands
Date: 1565–1575
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 95.8 × 77 cm (37 3/4 × 30 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Chester Dale
Reference Number: 1951.314

“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.

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.

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.

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