Woman Holding an Apple

oil on canvas overall: 97.8 × 73.8 cm (38 1/2 × 29 1/16 in.) framed: 123 x 99.4 x 9.8 cm (48 7/16 x 39 1/8 x 3 7/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection Provenance: Probably Michel Particelli d'Hémery [1596-1650], Paris; by inheritance to his son-in-law, Louis Phélypeaux de La Vrillière [1599-1681].[1] George Wilbraham, M.P. [1779-1852], Delamere House, near Northwich, Cheshire, by 1829;[2] probably by inheritance to his son, George Fortescue Wilbraham [1815-1885], Delamere House, by 1883;[3] probably by inheritance to his son, Major Hugh Edward Wilbraham, M.B.E. [1857-1930], Delamere House, by 1914;[4] purchased January 1929 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., Lond