SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)

Rubens
Portrait of Margherita Gonzaga, bust-length, in an embroidered black doublet and a white lace collar and pearl earrings
oil on canvas
32 ¾ x 25 in. (83.2 x 63.5 cm.)

PROVENANCE

Baron Lazzaroni, Villa Madeleine, Nice; his sale, J.J. Terris, Nice, 16-21 June 1952, lot 123, as School of Pourbus, Portrait of a Woman.
Private collection, by 2002.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 December 2011, lot 6, where acquired by the present owner.

LITERATURE

J. Müller-Hofstede, Gonzaga, La Celeste Galeria, le Raccolte, R. Morselli ed., Milan, 2002, p. 102, fig. 17, as a Portrait of Maria de' Medici.
R. Morselli, 'Rubens alla corta dei Gonzaga a Mantova,' Rubens a Genova, N. Büttner and A. Orlandi eds., exhibition catalogue, Genova, 2022, pp. 102, 106, fig. 2.
EXHIBITED

Mantua, Palazzo Tè and Palazzo Ducale, Gonzaga, La Celeste Galeria, le Raccolte, 2002, no. 17, as a Portrait of Maria de' Medici by Rubens.

Price:350,000$