LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on oak panel
Size Notes:
current and original size, without subsequent additions
Exhibited:
London, Leger Galleries, Modern Paintings, 21 April - 30 May 1944;. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Holländska mästere i svensk ägo, 1967, no. 51;. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Rembrandt Och Hans Tid: människan i centrum, 2 October 1992 - 6 January 1993, no. 87.
Literature:
J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck 1615-1660, Amsterdam 1965, pp. 26 and 157, cat. no. 435, reproduced plate 49 (as reputedly a portrait of Rembrandt's first wife Saskia and as pendant to a portrait of Rembrandt, also as typical of Flinck's work in the early 1640s, but also closely related to F. Bol);. W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York 1979, vol. IV, p. 2144 (as circa 1640);. S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Enkele portretten 'à l'antique' door Rembrandt, Bol, Flinck en Backer', in De Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis, 32, 1980/81, p. 6, reproduced fig. 12, p. 7 (as Portrait of the artist's wife, Ingeltje Thovelingh);. W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. II, Landau 1983, p. 1035, cat. no. 681, reproduced p. 1113;. J. Bruyn, 'Rezension von W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Band I u. II', in Oud Holland, XCVIII, 1984, p. 216, note 7 (as Portrait of the artist's wife, Ingeltje Thovelingh);. B. L.[undström], in G. Cavalli-Björkman (ed.), Rembrandt Och Hans Tid: människan i centrum, exhibition catalogue, Stockholm 1992, p. 258, cat. no. 87, reproduced in color;. W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. VI, Landau 1983, p. 3608, cat. no. 681;. N. Birnfeld, Der Künstler und seine Frau : Studien zu Doppelbildnissen des 15.-17. Jahrhunderts, Weimar 2009, pp. 244-45, cat. no. 41, reproduced fig. 110..
Provenance:
Sir Berkeley Sheffield, Bt., Normanby Park, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire;. By whom sold, London, Christie's, 16 July 1943, lot 107 (as Rembrandt, Portrait of Saskia);. With Leger Galleries, London, 1944;. With Hallsborough Gallery, London;. Martha Wiberg, Stockholm (according to a label affixed to the reverse);. Private collection, Munich, 1992 (according to the 1992 exhibition label affixed to the reverse);. Thence by inheritance to the present owners.