Name: PIETER CODDE (AMSTERDAM 1599-1678)
Brand: Portrait of a young lady, aged 22, three-quarter length, in a black dress with gold embroidery, a ‘molensteenkraag’ with gold necklaces and a white headdress
Price: 18000.00 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

PIETER CODDE (AMSTERDAM 1599-1678)
Portrait of a young lady, aged 22, three-quarter length, in a black dress with gold embroidery, a ‘molensteenkraag’ with gold necklaces and a white headdress
signed with monogram ‘PC’, annotated and dated ‘AETATIS SVA / 22 / anno 163[0/1]’ (on the reverse)
oil on panel, oval
18.7 x 13.7 cm. (7³⁄₈ x 5³⁄₈ in.)

W.H. van Hoorn, Amsterdam, by 1903.
with S. Nystad, The Hague, 1979, where acquired by the late owner (Dfl. 22.000).

(Probably) A. Bredius, Amsterdam in de zeventiende eeuw, The Hague, 1897-1904, III, p. 178.
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Amsterdam 1974, I, p. 309.

The Hague, Haagsche Kunstkring, Tentoonstelling van Oude Portretten, 1 July – 1 September 1903, p. 12, no. 12.

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We are grateful to Prof. Jochai Rosen for confirming the attribution upon inspection of photographs and for adding that Bredius (loc. cit.) probably mentions this specific portrait. Prof. Rosen further pointed out that the oval, ‘Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in black’, which is signed and dated 1630, sold Christie’s, New York, 25 January 2012, lot 12 ($68,500), may well be the pendant to the present picture (see J. Rosen, Pieter Codde (1599-1678) : catalogue raisonné, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2020, p. 231, no. 6). The dimensions of both panels are almost identical and the male portrait is also signed with a monogram on its reverse, as Codde also did in another case of pendant portraits (J. Rosen, op. cit., nos. 14-15). The present oval’s date may read 1630, but if indeed dated 1631 it is still plausible both portraits are pendants.