Lot 50: Willem van Mieris (Leiden 1662-1747)

Willem van Mieris (Leiden 1662-1747)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black costume with a white lace jabot; and Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a yellow dress with a blue wrap, a pearl necklace and pearl strings in her hair
the second signed and dated 'W.van Mieris. Fe Ao 1706' (centre left)
oil on copper, an oval
14.3 x 12.5 cm.
a pair (2)

C. Hofstede de Groot, Verzeichnisch der Holländische Maler, etc, Stuttgart, Paris, 1928, Vol. X, pp. 209, 213, nos. 398, 418.

Anonymous sale; C.F. Roos, Amsterdam, 13 April 1904, lot 881 (Dfl. 600 to Van Gelder).
Anonymous sale; Drouot, Paris, 31 January 1912, lot 39.
Palais P., Vienna; Fischer, Luzern, 25 August 1926, lot 562.

Willem van Mieris (Leiden 1662-1747)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black costume with a white lace jabot; and Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a yellow dress with a blue wrap, a pearl necklace and pearl strings in her hair
the second signed and dated 'W.van Mieris. Fe Ao 1706' (centre left)
oil on copper, an oval
14.3 x 12.5 cm.
a pair (2)