An Unknown Woman
attributed to Isaac de Joudreville (Leiden 1613 - Amsterdam 1648)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
c. 1630 - 1635
Materials
Oil on panel (oak)
Measurements
775 x 675 x 90 mm
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446730
Summary
Oil painting on oak panel, An Unknown Woman, attributed to Isaac de Jouderville (Leiden 1613 - Amsterdam 1648), signed mid right: RHL (in monogram), c. 1630-5. A head and shoulders portrait of a young woman, facing towards left and looking downwards, her face illuminated. She wears a dark dress with a striped brown scarf fastened by a jewel at her breast, and two strings of porphyry-coloured beads.
Provenance
Sir Berkeley Sheffield Bt, of Normanby Park, Lincs., Christie's, 16 July 1943, lot 108: bought by 'Betts' (probably the name or agent used by Lord Bearsted), for 900 gns; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
RHL (signed, in monogram)
Makers and roles
attributed to Isaac de Joudreville (Leiden 1613 - Amsterdam 1648), artist imitator of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669), artist
Exhibition history
Young Rembrandt/Jonge Rembrandt, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, 2019 - 2020 Young Rembrandt/Jonge Rembrandt, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2019 - 2020 New Light on Old Masters, Squash Court Gallery, 2013 The Bearsted Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1955, no.27
References
Anon 1944 'A New Rembrandt Portrait', Burlington Magazine, LXXXIV, 1944, pp.62-63, repd Gelder 1953 Jan Gerrit van Gelder, 'Rembrandt and his Circle', Burlington Magazine, XCV, 1953 Brown, Van Camp, Vogelaar 2019: Christopher Brown, An Van Camp and Christiaan Vogelaar, Young Rembrandt, Rising Star, exh. cat., Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden 2019 and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 2020, p. 268, no. 132 reproduced
