Mattheus Verheyden (1700- after 1776)

Portrait of Louise Philippine Royer (1739-1809), aged 27, seated small full length by a fountain, wearing a blue silk dress with lace chemise and red silk wrap, a canary is perched on the index finger of her left hand, a birdcage at her side, in a formal garden

细节

Mattheus Verheyden (1700- after 1776)
Portrait of Louise Philippine Royer (1739-1809), aged 27, seated small full length by a fountain, wearing a blue silk dress with lace chemise and red silk wrap, a canary is perched on the index finger of her left hand, a birdcage at her side, in a formal garden
signed (strengthened) and dated (strengthened) lower left M.Verheijden.Fecit./MDCCLXVI; the base of the fountain sculpted with the coat-of-arms of the sitter lower left; with inscription identifying the sitter on a label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
52.5 x 44.4 cm

来源

See previous lot

出版

See previous lot, except for J. van Gool, 1751 and L. de Vries, 1990

拍场告示

The illustrations in the catalogue of the lots 72 and 73 have been exchanged.

拍品专文

The sitter was a daughter of Jean Royer and Sara Philippine Hoeufft (the sitter in the previous lot). She was portrayed 38 years later at the same age as her mother. It is obvious that Verheyden, by adopting the same style as in 1728, thus intended to create pendant portraits.

See colour illustration