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Portrait of a Flemish Lady
Flemish Artist

Title

Portrait of a Flemish Lady

Artist

Unknown Artist (Flemish Artist)

Date

c. 1630–1635

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

42 1/2 × 34 in. (108 × 86.4 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Museum purchase

Object Number

1942.5

On View

On view

Provenance

With Schaeffer Gallery, New York, by 1942;
Purchased from Schaffer Gallery, through Harold Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, January 24, 1942.

Exhibition History

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, December 1941–January 1942.

Anthony van Dyck, Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohoma, Japan, August 15–September 30, 1990; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, October 6–November 7; Osaka Museum of Art, Kintetsu, Japan, November 16–December 3, 1990.

Published References

Art News 41, March 1–14, 1942, 25.

“The Wonderful World of Art: Van Dyke Combined Genius, Rubens Influence,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, October 20, 1960, 32.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artist (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 110.

Erik Larsen, L’Opera Completa di Anton van Dyck (Milan: Rizzoli, 1980), 89.

Erik Larsen, Van Dyck, vol. 1 (Rotterdam, Netherlands: Lekturama, 1980), no. 579.

Erik Larsen, Anthony Van Dyck (Frankfurt: Ullstein, 1980), no. 404.

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 44–45 (repro.).

Erik Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony Van Dyck, vol. 2 (Freren, Germany: Luca Verlag, 1988), 243 (repro.), as Anthony Van Dyck.

“Joslyn Painting Not a Van Dyck; Artist Unknown,” Omaha World-Herald, September 20, 1991, 1, 12.

Guy C. Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 317.

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 80–81 (repro.).