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Lot 38*,TP
French School17th CenturyPortrait of a young Prince, possibly Philippe duc d'Orléans, standing three-quarter-length before a curtain, wearing armour, lace collar and the Vatican Order of Christ, holding a bâton in his right hand, his left arm leaning on a draped pedestal
3 July 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,960 inc. premium
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Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Lisa Greaves
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French School, 17th Century
Portrait of a young Prince, possibly Philippe duc d'Orléans, standing three-quarter-length before a curtain, wearing armour, lace collar and the Vatican Order of Christ, holding a bâton in his right hand, his left arm leaning on a draped pedestal
bears inscription 'Vandyck fecit' (on reverse)
oil on canvas
115.6 x 93.1cm (45 1/2 x 36 5/8in).
bears inscription 'Vandyck fecit' (on reverse)
oil on canvas
115.6 x 93.1cm (45 1/2 x 36 5/8in).
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Provenance
The Collection of Baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar, Kasteel de Haar, Utrecht
Their sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 October 1998, lot 23 (sold to benefit the restoration of Kasteel de Haar, as Circle of Adriaen Hanneman, Portrait of a young Prince, probably Charles II, Prince of Wales)
With Kunsthandel H.W.C. Dullaert, Amsterdam (as Portrait of Philippe I d'Orléans), 1999, where acquired by the present owner
The sitter had been traditionally identified as the young Charles II, whose portraits by Sir Anthony van Dyck he does physically resemble. Prince Charles, however, would have been more usually depicted wearing the Order of the Garter. Albeit that Charles's mother, Queen Henrietta Maria was a practising Roman Catholic and the king converted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed, the Papal supreme Order of Christ that the sitter is depicted wearing would suggest a Roman Catholic sitter of the highest status (as indeed would his depiction in armour at such a young age), which endorses the sitter's subsequent identification as Philippe duc d'Orléans, the younger son of King Louis XIV of France, who was Charles II's first cousin, and whom he therefore closely resembled.
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