Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (39.1998)

Bibliography: Catalogue 1893, no. 73 (as School of Venice, 16th century);
P Weloński 1913, no. 198 (as School of Venice); Catalogue 1969-70, no. 1633
(as North Italian School).

In 1975 F. Heinemann mistakenly classified the painting as a copy of the
work by Lambert Sustris in Kassel (no. GK 504). In 1996 E. Buijsen from the
RKD in the Hague suggested Frans Franken the Younger, dating the painting
ca. 1600. L. Slatkes likewise in 1996 suggested Paris Bordone or aNetherlandish
painter active in Venice.

A somewhat larger version of The Death of Cleopatra, without the
background landscape, was classified as from the 17th century School of
Bologna on January 15, 1993 at auction in Sotheby’s in New York (no. 180;
oil on canvas, 166.2 x 101.6 cm).

7. Jakob Willemsz. Delff II (1619-1661)

Portrait ofYolkera van Beresteyn

Oil on wood, 83.5 x 68.5 cm, dated on the right at the top near the arm:
A° 1646.

Provenance: sold at auction in Berlin in 1917; a card on the frame with the
notę “Franz Carl Kruger, Berlin no. 62, Kurfiirstenstr. 128. Ravesteyn (Bildnis

7. Jocob Willemsz.
Delff II, Portrait of
Ifolkera van Beresteyn
(Phot. Muzeum
Narodowe, Warsaw)

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