CORNEILLE DE LA HAYE, CALLED CORNEILLE DE LYON (THE HAGUE 1500/10-1575 LYON)

CORNEILLE DE LA HAYE, CALLED CORNEILLE DE LYON (THE HAGUE 1500/10-1575 LYON)
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Marie de Batarnay (1539-1595), half-length, wearing a black and grey dress with white fur sleeves and a black hood and veil
oil on panel
7 1/8 x 5 ¾ in. (19.4 x 14.7 cm.)

Provenance
Hon. George Ives Irby (1802-1869), later 4th Baron Boston, Florence, 1836 (with his collector’s label affixed to the reverse of the panel), no. 84, as Hans Holbein, and by descent to
George Irby, 6th Baron Boston (1860-1941), Hedsor Lodge, Buckinghamshire.
Marcus Kappel (1839-1919), Berlin, by 1910.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 23 March 1973, lot 66, where acquired by
Dr. Gustav Rau (1922-2002), by whom bequeathed to
The Foundation of the German Committee for UNICEF; Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 2013, lot 4, where acquired by the present owner.