Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn Portrait of a lady... Lot 2043

Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn Portrait of a lady of the De Pinto family Oil on wood. 69 x 56 cm. Dated and inscribed upper right: Anno. 1641./ Ætatis.23 (only visible under UV light). Provenance Gallery Robert Pintelon, Aalst, 1980 (exhibited at the Art Fair Geneva, Geneva). - SØR Rusche Collection, Oelde. - Auction Sotheby's, London, 10.5.2019, lot 257. - South German private collection. Exhibitions Liesborn, Museum Abbey Liesborn (on permanent loan). - At Home in the Golden Age. Masterpieces From the SØR Rusche Collection, Rotterdam, Kunsthal, 9.2-18.5.2008, no. 153. Literature B. Lymant: Dutch Painting of the 17th Century, Portrait, vol. 1, Liesborn 1985, pp. 28-29, m. ill. - H.-J. Raupp (ed.): Dutch Painting of the. 17th Century from the SØR Rusche Collection, vol. I, Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, p. 120, no. 46, m. ill. - Ausst.-Kat. Rotterdam 2008: At Home in the Golden Age. Masterpieces From the SØR Rusche Collection, ed. by Marten Jan Bok & Jannet de Goede, Rotterdam, Zwolle 2008, p. 138, no. 153, m. ill. A characteristic half-figure portrait of a woman by Jan van Ravesteyn, painted in 1641 and thus in his late creative period. The sitter is a member of the De Pinto family, presumably Jewish emigrants from the Iberian Peninsula. Despite the noble simplicity of the depiction, details of the clothing, jewelry and accessories show the woman's wealth, such as the breastcloths layered in several layers, the rich lace jewelry, the pearl earrings and the feather fan in her hand. There will have been a counterpart to this portrait, which shows the sitter's husband on the heraldic right side.