Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium

Object details

Title

Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

121.8 x 87.8 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Davies 2021e]

Collection and provenance

Collection

The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium

Provenance

Princess Lydia of Arenberg (1905–1977);
thence by inheritance in a European private collection;
sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 23 October 2018 (35), as Van Dyck;
bought by The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp.

Literature

Literature

Rockoxhuis Antwerp 2020, pp. 271-22, as Van Dyck (J. Davies);
Davies 2021a, pp. 50-51, 53, 62, n. 24;
Davies 2021e, p.63, 65, 68-9, n. 19;

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Castle and Hands - one branding iron

Panel maker's mark

Peeter Roybaert

Inscriptions

  1. ‘NE’ in black paint
  2. ’26’ in white chalk
  3. ‘9’ in white chalk
  4. ‘175’ in blue chalk

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

4

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 202
Dated: AD 1408 – 1609
Felled: After AD 1615 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 163
Dated: AD 1436 – 1598
Felled: After AD 1604 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 170
Dated: AD 1441 – 1610
Felled: After AD 1616 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 4

Tree rings: 116
Dated: AD 1478 – 1593
Felled: After AD 1599 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

1. and 4. this painting
2. and 3. this painting

Date of investigation

16 October 2018

Dendro report no.

AU007/2018

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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