LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

10.00 in. (25.40 cm.) (height) by 7.01 in. (17.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed on the book: GDOV ( GD in ligature) with two unidentified collectors' seals on the reverse

Literature:

R. Baer,. The Paintings of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) ,. Ph.D Thesis, New York University, 1990, Appendix A (Untraced Works of Undetermined attribution);. W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schuler , Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. I, pp. 527, 548, no. 251, reproduced

Provenance:

Colonel John Frederick Everett JP (1834-1903), Greenhill House, Sutton Verney, Warminster;. Augustus Meyers, Forest Lodge, Ashtead, Surrey; . His posthumous sale et al., London, Christie's, 13 May 1949, lot 78, for £546 to Speelman; . With Edward Speelman, London; . By whom sold in 1950 to Sir Robert Bland Bird (1876-1960) for £1,100; . Possibly by inheritance to Pamela Stephanie Helen Bird, Viscountess de Maudit (1910-2006); . Possibly Dr Sydney Wood Bradley (1896-1967), Ottawa, by 1967; . Possibly Helen M. Bradley Langstaff (1912-1986); . Helen Langstaff, Toronto, Canada; . Thence by inheritance to the present owner in 1986