Lot 26: Johann Spilberg II (Dusseldorf 1619-1690)

Portrait of a young lady, half-length, with a pearl headdress and holding a fan
oil on panel
28 x 21 5/8 in. (71.1 x 54.9 cm.)

W. Sumowski, Gëmalde der Rembrandt-Schüler, VI, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, p. 3742, no. 2440a, illustrated p. 4059.

Anonymous sale; Fischer, Lucerne, 18-22 June 1963, lot 1816, as 'Govaert Flinck'.

Probably dating to the mid-1640s, this picture reflects the influence of Govaert Flinck. Other similar pictures by Spilberg of around the same period are a Young Girl with a Dog (formerly Zurich, Galerie Kurt Meissner) and Jael (Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie), which is dated 1644. The pose of the sitter in the present picture, with her arm resting on a ledge, recalls, in reverse, the pose in Rembrandt's Self Portrait of 1640, in the National Gallery, London, which in turn derives from Titian's Portrait of a Man, also in the National Gallery, London. Rembrandt had seen Titian's portrait after it was bought by his acquaintance Alfonso Lépez from the art dealer Lucas van Uffelen.

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