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Portrait of a Seated Woman
Antonis Mor (Netherlandish, c. 1517–c. 1576)LinkedCulture matchlcp-2d1d4a4d365d
- Date
- c. 1565
- Medium
- Oil on panel, mounted on aluminum sheet
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 40599
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Antonis Mor, who worked in Spain and the Low Countries, was court painter to Spanish king Philip II. He used a seated three-quarter-length format for sitters who did not belong to the nobility, making them appear more approachable. The woman represented here (along with her husband, whose portrait is now in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh) probably belonged to the merchant elite of Antwerp. Her cap and braid-trimmed bodice were fashionable for Flemish women in the mid-16th century.
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- Credit line
- Edward E. Ayer Fund
- Provenance
- Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. (d. 1805), Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight, by 1804, as pendant to a Portrait of a Seated Man [Worsley 1804]; by descent to his niece Henrietta Anna Maria Charlotte Bridgeman, who in 1806 married Charles, 2nd Baron Yarborough (1781–1846; created Earl of Yarborough 1837), Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire, and London [Waagen 1854 and 1857; for this descent, see Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 21, Oxford, 1973, p. 952; and Burke’s Peerage, 105th ed., London, 1970, p. 2893]; by descent to Charles, 4th Earl of Yarborough. Robert Langton Douglas, London [according to undated notes, Katherine Moore, Knoedler, to Barry Hannegan, North Carolina Museum of Art, copy in curatorial file]. Knoedler, New York, Oct. 1916 [notes cited above [according to notes cited above, this transaction had Knoedler stock number 13970, which is and with other numbers in a photograph of the reverse taken before the removal of the cradle]; Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh, July–Dec. 1918; Knoedler, New York, 1918 [notes cited above; this transaction had Knoedler stock number 14555]; sold to J. Horace Harding (d. 1929), New York, 1925 [Harding lent this portrait and its pendant to London 1927]; estate of Mrs. J. Horace Harding [With Knoedler from September to December 1937 (no. CA1151), and lent through Saint James O’Toole Galleries, New York, to the 1940–41 exhibition]; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Mar. 1, 1941, no. 57, to Knoedler as agent for the Art Institute.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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