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Materials:
oil on panel
Size Notes:
original panel; including later additions: 32.6 x 24.6 cm
Description:
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Markings:
signed with monogram lower centre: GD(ligated) OV
Condition:
framed
Exhibited:
Rembrandt, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, 15 July – 15 September 1906, no. 11;
Dutch Exhibition, Paris, 1911;
Dutch Old Masters, Part II, from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., University of Miami Art Gallery, Coral Gables (Florida), 6th February – 9th March 1951, no. 20;
Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (Virginia), 19th October – 25th November 1951;
The Little Masters, Paintings by Artists of the Netherlands and Belgium from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (Virginia), 13th October 1953 – 11th May 1955, pp. 13/14
Literature:
JJ. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent…, vol. I, London 1829, p. 21, no. 62 (as dated 1645);
W. Martin, Dou Catalogue, Leiden 1901;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstlerlexikon, Wien/Leipzig 1906, S. 417;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné…, vol. I, London 1907, p. 401, no. 164 (as dated 1645);
W. Martin, Gerard Dou, Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, Paris 1911, p. 182, no. 116;
W. Martin, Gerrit Dou, Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuttgart/Berlin 1913, pp. 195/96, ill. p. 113 (dated to circa 1670–75);
R. Baer, The Paintings of Gerrit Dou, doctoral dissertation, New York University, 1990, cat. C72 (under ‘Works of Rejected Attribution’);
E. de Jongh, “Erotica in vogelperspectief. De Dubbelzinnigheid van een reeks zeventiende-eeuwse genrevorstellingen”, in: Simiolus, vol. 3, 1968/69;
E. de Jongh, Kwesties van Betekenis, Thema en Motiev in de Nederlandse schilderkunst van de zeventiende eeuw, Leiden 1995, pp. 40/41, fig. 25
Provenance:
Collection Comte de Merle, Paris;
his sale, Paris, Paillet/Juillot, 1st March 1784 (sold for 900 francs);
Chevalier Sébastien Erard (1752–1831), Château de La Muette, Bois de Boulogne, Paris;
his deceased sale, Paris, Lacoste, 23rd April 1832, lot 28;
Sir Edward Page-Turner, Battlesden House, Preston Park, Brighton;
Lady Page-Turner, Battlesden House, Brighton;
her deceased sale, Christie’s, London, 21st February 1903, lot 19;
Dr Jules Porgès, Paris (1906);
Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main (by 1913);
Alexander Oppler (1869–1937), Berlin-Grunewald;
Samuel van den Bergh, Wassenaar (confiscated by German soldiers in May 1940 and brought to Germany in 1944);
with F. Mont, New York (1950);
Newhouse Galleries, New York;
Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909–1988), New York (1951);
with Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam (1965);
Property of a private Collection in co-operation with the heirs of Alexander Oppler and Samuel van den Bergh;
their sale, Sotheby’s, London, 3rd July 2013, lot 13