Preparatory Study for Portrait of Dina
Margareta de Bye
Willem van Mieris(Leiden 1662 – 1747 Leiden)

ca. 1705
black chalk and wash on paper
15.9 x 13.3 cm
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ProvenanceDina Margareta de Bye (1680-1740); probably by descent in her family to Baron Jules de Wyckersloothde Rooyestein, by 1831.
(Sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 9 March 1920, no. 353, sold for 10 florins).
L.X. Lanoy (his sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 20 May 1925, no. 464).
(Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 June 1974, no. 140).
[Herbert E. Feist, New York, 1975].
(Sale, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 2 November 1987, no. 96).
(Sale, Christie’s, Amsterdam, 25 November 1991, no. 184, as attributed to Willem van Mieris).
Private collection, Amsterdam [to Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd.].
[Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London, 1993; to a private collection, Monte Carlo].
Private collection, Monte Carlo, 1994 [to Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd.].
[Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London, 2004].
From whom received by the present owner in 2004.

Exhibition History
London, Richard Green Gallery, “The Cabinet Picture – Dutch and Flemish Masters of the SeventeenthCentury,” 14 April–7 May 1999 [lent by a private collection, Monte Carlo].
Poughkeepsie, New York, “Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature 1650–1700,” 28
September–19 December 2021, no. 14 [lent by the present owner].

References
Wright, Christopher. The Cabinet Picture: Dutch and Flemish Masters of the Seventeenth Century. Salescat. London, Richard Green Gallery. London, 1999, 195.
Nogrady, Elizabeth and Lara Yeager-Crasselt. Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature
1650–1700. Exh. cat. Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.
Poughkeepsie, New York, 2021, 48, no. 14.
Nogrady, Elizabeth. “Strange Changes: Early modern Scientific Imagery of Metamorphosis and Myth.”© 2024 The Leiden CollectionPowered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, New York, 2021.

Technical Summary
The support, a sheet of off-white laid paper, has been adhered to a ragboard mount along the upper corners,
the lower left corner, and center of the lower edge, although it is not possible to determine if it is adheredwith hinges or directly with adhesive.
The brown ink framing line surrounding the sheet appears to have been applied prior to the composition. The
design layer is executed in transparent gray washes layered in varied gradations and black ink strokes appliedwith a point of a brush followed by black chalk. The black chalk has been applied in hatch marks andstumped to enrich the washes in the curtain along the background.
The drawing is signed in brown ink along the lower left quadrant, above the relief.
The drawing has not undergone conservation treatment since its acquisition and remains in an excellent stateof preservation.[1]Technical Summary Endnotes1. Entry based on 2012 examination report by Marjorie Shelley, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge,Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, Metropolitan Museum ofArt, New York.

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