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Sir Anthony van DyckAntwerp 1599 - 1641 LondonThe Virgin and Child inscribed with painted inventory number, lower left: N 47.oil on canvas, in its original Italian carved and gilded seventeenth-century framecanvas: 49 by 44 5/8 in.; 124.5 by 113.3 cm.framed: 58 5/8 by 53 1/8 in.; 149 by 135 cm. ProvenanceEnglish Royal Collection, removed by King William III (1650–1702) for the Palace of Het Loo, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, before 1702; At Het Loo until 1713; recorded in the valuation, 6–7 December 1712, as hanging in the great gallery, no. 87 (as Rubens); in the list by Robert du Val, 1713, with inventory number ‘N 47’ (as Van Dyck); and in the estate inventory, 8 April 1713, as hanging in the picture gallery, no. 856 (as Van Dyck); Sold privately in August 1713 by Jan van Beuningen to an unknown person for 800 guilders; Count Alessandro Contini, Rome (as Van Dyck); With Howard Young, New York, 1926 (as Van Dyck); William T. Fisher, Detroit; William A. Fisher, Detroit (as Van Dyck), bequeathed by him and his wife to The Detroit Institute of Arts (F60.5), from 1960 until 2002, when deaccessioned; New York, Christie's (‘Property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund’), 25 January 2002, lot 9 (as studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck ; Private collection, Ireland; From whom acquired by the present owner. LiteratureStanhope's list (‘Liste des Tableaux qui ont été envoyés en Hollande’/ ‘A List of the Pictures which were carried to Holland’), 1702, no. 12: ‘Une Madona dans un paysage de l'Ecole de Bologne’ (‘A Virgin in a landscape, school of Bologna’); Valuation list, Het Loo (‘Liste van de schilderijen op het Loo in 't konstcabinet en galderije gevonde’/ ‘List of paintings found in the art cabinet and galleries at Het Loo’), 6–7 December 1712, no. 87, as hanging in the great gallery: ‘Lievevrouw met het Kintje, Rubens’ (‘The blessed Virgin with the Christ Child, Rubens’), estimate: f 600/ 700; Du Val's list (‘Schilderijen die volgens het zeggen van den kunst bewaerder du Val door hare Majt de Coninginne van groot Brittannien zyn gereclameert geworden als tot de Croon behorende’/ ‘Paintings which, according to information of curator du Val, have been claimed by Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain as Crown property’), 1713, no. N 47 (26): ‘Een Lieve vrouw met een kint door van Dyck’ (‘A blessed Virgin and Child by Van Dyck’); Estate inventory of Het Loo, 8 April 1713, no. 856, as hanging in the picture gallery: ‘De maegt Maria met het kindeke Jesus door Van Dijck’ (‘The Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus by Van Dyck’); Brief of the sold, unsold and inherited paintings of Het Loo, n.d. [shortly after 26 July 1713], Letter C [?]: [f 1000] ‘Een Lieve vrouw met een kind door van Dyk’ (‘A Virgin Mary with a child by Van Dyck’); Catalogue of the Exhibition of the King's Pictures, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1946–47, p. 104, under no. 292 (in a list of other versions); O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen, 2 vols, London 1963, p. 103, under no. 161 (as a copy); S.W.A. Drossaers and T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmede gelijk te stellen stukken, 1567–1795, 3 vols, The Hague 1974–76, vol. I, pp. 678, 698 and 700; M. Grimes in Homage to Rubens, exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 10 January – 9 April 1978, no. 8 (as Van Dyck); J.S. Held, The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit 1982, pp. 44–46, reproduced p. 45 (as a copy after Van Dyck); B. Brenninckmeyer-de Rooij et al., Paintings from England: William III and the Royal Collections, The Hague 1988, p. 83, no. 12 (some references pertain to the present work and not to the picture reproduced); E. Larsen, Van Dyck. The Paintings, Freren 1988, vol. II, p. 262, under no. 642 (as a copy; ‘art market, Detroit’); H. Vey, in Van Dyc