JAN MIJTENS (1614-1670) Portrait of Princess Henriette Catharina van Oranje-Nassau (1637-1708) Standing, small-scale three-quarter-length in a yellow silk dress and pearls by a fountain, with a spaniel drinking from a bowl, a landscape beyond. Signed lower left: JANMijtens. f Oil on oak panel: 16 ⅞ x 12 ¾ in. (43 x 32.5 cm.). PROVENANCE: Collection of the late Mrs. Barbara Overland of Mont Pellier House, Jersey. With Rafael Valls Ltd. Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 7 May 1996, lot 58. Collection of J.E.W.Twiss Quarles van Ufford-Twiss, Bilthoven (1973). With A.H. Bies, Eindhoven. Anonymous sale; Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 11 May 1971, lot 31. Mrs. van der Steen van Ommeren-van Beek, Amsterdam. Nassau-Dietz collection at Castle Oranienburg (Inventory 1726). LITERATURE: Alexandra Nina Bauer, Jan Mijtens (1613/14-1670). Leben und Werk, Petersberg 2006, p. 197-198, No. 62 A, Fig 62. S.W.A. Drossaers and Prof. Theodoor Herman Lunsingh Scheurleer, Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmede gelijk te stellen stukken. 3 vols. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974-1976, Vol. 2, p. 475, No. 398. |
The sitter was the daughter of Prince Frederik Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau (1584-1647) and Amalia van Solms-Braunfels (1602-1675). She married Prince Johan George II von Anhalt-Dessau (1627-1693) in 1659. |
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