LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

13.54 in. (34.40 cm.) (height) by 9.13 in. (23.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'GDOV' ('GD' linked, lower left, on the parapet)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, 1857, no. 105, p. 12 (lent by William Stuart). London, Frank T. Sabin, A Descriptive catalogue of a collection of twenty-five paintings by Dutch and Flemish XVIIth century masters, October 1934, no. 2. Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen van Oud-Hollandsche meesters uit de collectie Katz te Dieren, 17 November-15 December 1934, no. 6. The Hague, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, Herwonnen kunstbezit: Tentoonstelling van uit Duitschland teruggekeerde Nederlandsche kunstschatten, March-May 1946, no. 19

Literature:

G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, met Derzelver Pryzen, I, The Hague, 1752, p. 368, no. 27. J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, I, London, 1829, p. 6, no. 8. A. Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, I, London, 1918, p. 236. W. Martin, Het Leven en de Werken van Gerrit Dou Beschouwd in Verband met het Schildersleven van Zijn Tijd, Leiden, 1901, p. 197, no. 97. C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, I, London, 1907, p. 394, no. 146. R. Baer, The paintings of Gerard Dou (1613-1675), PhD dissertation, 1990, no. C65, under rejected attributions. E. Korthals Altes, ‘The Eighteenth-Century Gentleman Dealer Willem Lormier and the International Dispersal of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings’, Simiolus, 28, no. 4, 2000-2001, p. 299, no. 11. K. Jonckheere, The Auction of King William’s Paintings 1713: Elite International Art Trade at the End of the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam, 2008, pp. 85, 88, 271, 315

Provenance:

Cornelis Wittert (1672-1733), Lord of Valkenburg, Rotterdam; his sale, Arnold Willis, Rotterdam, 11 April 1731, lot 27 (FL 1,130). Adriaan Bout (1661-1733), The Hague; his sale, Cornelis van Zanten, The Hague, 11 August 1733, lot 50 (FL 535 to van Hoecke?). with Willem Lormier (1682-1758), The Hague, where acquired for FL 1,000 on 27 June 1748 Marc-René Voyer, Marquis d’Argenson (1722-1782). (Possibly) Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 May 1791, lot 33, where acquired by The Earl of Airlie (possibly David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie). Jeremiah Harman (1764-1844), Higham-House, Woodford; (†), Christie's, London, 18 May 1844, lot 73, where acquired by William Stuart, and by inheritance to Mrs. M.H.O. Stuart, Hill Street, London; (†), Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1933, lot 45 (£300), where acquired by the following with Frank T. Sabin, London. with D. Katz, Dieren, by 1934, where acquired by Alois Miedl, Gallery Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, no. 5790, where acquired by the following with Galerie Maria Almas-Dietrich (1892-1971), Munich. Restituted to the heirs of D. Katz, 1947. with Hoogsteder, The Hague, by 1983, where acquired by Dr. O. Hoste, Bruges, and by descent to the following Private collection, Bruges