Portrait of Mrs. Bodolphe
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| Portrait of Mrs. Bodolphe | |
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| Accession | 1961.18.24 |
Portrait of Mrs. Bodolphe is an oil-on-canvas painting by the
Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1643 as half of a pair of pendant marriage portraits and is still together with its pendant in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
.
Painting
The painting is one of several portrait paintings of wealthy women of Haarlem that Hals made as female halves of marriage pendants, but this one seems to be executed for a second marriage or perhaps 50th wedding anniversary, considering the age of 72 of the sitter. The sitter herself remains unknown, though it and its pendant have been traditionally called "Bodolphe".
Provenance
In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works
J. Pierpont Morgan; exhibited on loan in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.[1]
This painting came into the collection via the bequest of school alumnus
Mennonite
faith. This clue narrows the field for an eventual identification.
-
Mr. Bodolphe (no wrist collars) -
Mrs. Bodolphe (sober wrist collars)
See also
References
- ^ Hofstede de Groot on Madame Bodolphe; catalog number 158
- ISBN 978-0-671-22776-0
- Great Dutch Paintings from America 1990–1991, 1990-1991 art exhibition in Mauritshuis and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, catalog nr. 26
