Joan Carlile Sleeper!

March 2 2025

Image of Joan Carlile Sleeper!

Picture: lawsons.com.au

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

A reader of this blog has kindly been in touch to let me know of this intriguing picture catalogued as 'Circle of Peter Lely' which made 45,000 AUD (the equivalent of £22,200) over its 2,000 - 3,000 AUD estimate at Lawsons in Australia today. It seems rather clear that this is a lost work by Joan Carlile (see here for another example), and a very beautiful one at that. I'm sure the picture will turn up somewhere interesting in due course!

Update - Thierry at @auctionradar made a good observation on Instagram yesterday that it appears the composition was inspired by Titian's Portrait of Laura Dianti (last recorded in the Kisters collection). The engraver Aegidius Sadeler made a print of the painting when it was in the collection of Rudolf II in Prague, which is probably how Joan Carlile came to know this particular Titian.

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