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Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp) Portrait of Clara Serena, the artist's daughter oil on panel 14 ¼ x 10 3/8 in. (36.2 x 26.4 cm.) Provenance (Presumably) In the estate of Jan Brant (1559-1639), the artist’s father-in-law and the sitter’s grandfather, listed ‘ In de groote camer aan den hoff ’, ‘Twee stucxkens schilderije respective, op panneel, olieverve, in lijste, d'een van Jan Brant, des afflijvigens soontken was, ende d'ander van Clara Serena Rubens, dochterken was des voors. Hr. Rubbens’ . (Probably) Guillaume-Jean-Constantin (1755-1816), Curator of the painting collection of Empress Josephine at Château de Malmaison; his sale (†), Rue Saint-Lazare no. 52, Paris, 18 November 1816 (=1st day), lot 285, as ‘School of Rubens’, ‘Un portrait de jeune fille bien touché et d'une grande vérité. H. 13 p., l. 10. B. [sur bois]’, sold for 22 francs to, Louis-Antoine (Athanase) Lavallée (1768-1818), Secretary General of the ‘Musée Napoléon’ (Musée du Louvre) and its temporary director. (Possibly) M. Camille Groult (1837-1908), Paris. Sir Robert Henry Edward Abdy, 5th Bt. (1896-1976), Paris. Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt (1842-1934), New York; her sale (†), American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 6 April 1935, lot 613. Frederick R. Bay, New York, by 1936, until at least 1939. Charles Ulrick Bay (1888-1955), New York, by 1942, and by inheritance to his widow, Josephine Bay Paul, New York, 1955, by whom gifted as ‘Rubens’ to, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 60.169), in 1960, catalogued as ‘a copy after Rubens, probably 17th century’, and deaccessioned in 2013; Sotheby’s, New York, 31 January 2013 (=1st day), lot 107, as ‘Follower of Peter Paul Rubens’ ($626,500), when acquired by the present owner.