A Genoese Lady

between 1625 and 1627

Anton van Dyck Flemish, 1599-1641

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Title A Genoese Lady

Artwork Date between 1625 and 1627

Artist Anton van Dyck

Life Dates 1599-1641

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Flemish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 42 × 32 1/2 inches (106.7 × 82.6 cm) Framed: 54 1/2 × 44 3/4 × 3 7/8 inches (138.4 × 113.7 × 9.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Ralph Harman Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 26.102

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Provenance

(Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, France)

1910, collection of Dr. James Simon (Berlin, Germany)

collection of Camillo Castiglioni (Vienna, Austria)

November 1925, auctioned by (F. Müller, Amsterdam, Netherlands), lot 57

purchased by Duveen

Ralph Harman Booth [1873-1931]

1926-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Graflick Redernshes Palais. Ausstellung von Werken des Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Vereins. Berlin, 1906, p. 13, cat. 27 [as Marchesa Spinola].

Konigliche Kunst-Akademie. Ausstellung von Bildnissen des Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Vereins. Berlin, 1909.

Hadeln, Freiherr D. von. "Die Portratausstellung des Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Vereins II," Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst, new ser., no. 20 (1909): p. 297 ["thought to be a Spinola"].

Schaeffer, E. Van Dyck/des Meisters Gemälde, (KdK XIII), Stuttgart-Leipzig, 1909, pp. 185, 503 [as Marchessa Gropallo].

Exposition d'Art Ancien/l'Art Belge au XVII Siècle. Exh. cat., Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire. Brussels, 1910, no. 153.

"Gift of Four Important Paintings: Correggio, Van Dyck, Poussin and Zurbaran," Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 1 (1926): pp. 4-7 [as Marchesa Spinola].

Valentiner, W.R. "Travel Notes," Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 1 (1928): pp. 7-8 (repr.) ["a Genoese Lady"].

Loan Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Anthony van Dyck. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 3-20, 1929 [unpaginated], cat. 21. (repr.) [as Marchesa Spinola] [cat. entry by W.R. Valentiner & L.J. Walther].

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 66, (repr.) [as Anthony van Dyck].

Glück, G. Van Dyck/des Meisters Gemälde (KdK XII), Stuttgart-Berlin, 1931, pp. 172, 538 [as Marchessa Gropallo, "not certain"].

Scheyer, E. Baroque Painting. Detroit, 1937, pp. 48-49, (fig. 20) [as a Young Genoese Noblewoman "of the house of Spinola or Gropallo", and as by A.van Dyck].

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 42, no. 66 [as Marchesa Spinola].

Palazzo dell'Accademia. 100 Opere di van Dyck. Genoa, 1955, cat. 22 (repr.) [as Marchesa Spinola].

Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century, The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 30-32, (repr).

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