25 February 2018

Alphonsine de Challie. Young Lady with a pink Veil (‘Jeune femme brune au voile rose à sa toilette’), ca. 1900 (private collection).



Oil on canvas: 62 x 81 cm. Auctioned at Artcurial Paris, November 2017. Alphonsine de Challie worked in the studio of Charles Joshua Chaplin and was a friend of Berthe Morisot. Ears were not her forte.

18 February 2018

Jan Massys (Massijs/ Matsys/ Metsys). Flora, 1559 (Hamburger Kunsthalle).


Oil on oak: 113.2 x 112.9 cm. Son of the leading Antwerp painter Quinten Matsys (Massys/ Massijs/ Metsys).

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13 February 2018

Piero di Cosimo (attributed). Portrait of a Woman, said to be Simonetta Vespucci (‘Portrait de femme dit de Simonetta Vespucci’), 1490 (Musée Condé, Chantilly).



Tempera on wood: 42 x 57 cm. The face is en profil, but the bust is turned towards the spectator. Authenticity of inscription is disputed. The Botticelli portrait: here.

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Firmin Baes. The young Girl and the Cabbage (‘La petite fille au chou’), ca. 1903 (private collection, Antwerp).


Pastel, oil and watercolour on board: 85 x 70.5 cm. From the Caroline & Maurice Verbaet Collection. When this work was made, it was custom in Belgium and the Netherlands to tell children that babies were born out of a cabbage.

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2 February 2018

Alan Beeton. Marguerite Kelsey, ca. 1936 (private collection, UK).


Oil on canvas. Said to be in the collection of Richard Ormond, former director of the National Maritime Museum. Exhibited at the Watts Gallery, Guildford/ UK November 2016. The Frampton portrait: here.

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