LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

24.25 in. (61.60 cm.) (height) by 18.11 in. (46.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Vienna, 1873, lent by G.R. von Epstein; Vienna, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Gemälde alter Meister-Neuerwerbungen, December 1959 - January 1960

Literature:

W. Martin, Het leven en de werken van Gerrit Dou, Leiden 1901, p. 231, cat. no. 302a (as signed. G. Dou ); C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné.., vol. I, London 1907, p. 390, cat. no. 134 (as signed by Dou); Galerie Sanct Lucas, Gemälde alter Meister-Neuerwerbungen, Vienna 1959, as Gerard Dou, reproduced; W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt Schule r, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. I, p. 536, cat. no. 299, reproduced fig. 299 (as Dou); R. Baer, The Paintings of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675), dissertation, New York 1990, cat. no. C42 (under Rejected Attributions

Provenance:

G. R. von Epstein, Vienna, 1873; Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 1960, from whom acquired