Gerard Dou

Self-portrait



Gerard Dou - Self-portrait



Gerard Dou
Self-portrait
c. 1665
48.9 x 39.1 cm
Oil on wood
Signed left, on ledge: GDO[U] (initials in monogram)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


Related works

Copy:

Etienne Compardel - The Painter Gerard Dou
Etienne Compardel
The Painter Gerard Dou
1665 or after

Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 37

Literature
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the masters of genre painting, Dublin, Washington, Paris, New Haven and London, 2017, fig. 56


Provenance

?Johan de Bye, Leiden, in 1665
Voyer d'Argenson, Paris, in 1754
chevalier Sébastien Erard, Château de la Muette, Passy, 1825–died 1831
his estate sale, Paris, 23 April–7 August 1832, nr. 76, bought in
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 22 June 1833, nr. 40
with Étienne Le Roy, Brussels
Kalkbrenner, Paris, in 1842
M. Piérard, Valenciennes, until 1860
his estate sale, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, 20-21 March 1860, nr. 17, to Baring
A. Schloss, Paris, from about 1905
?Henry Say, Paris
with Scott & Fowles, New York, until 1907, sold to Altman
Benjamin Altman, New York, 1907–died 1913

External links

RKD 237882
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 14.40.607

Other works by Gerard Dou


Gerard Dou A Hermit
A Hermit

Gerard Dou An Interior, with a Woman eating Porridge
An Interior, with a Woman eating Porridge

Gerard Dou The tooth puller
The tooth puller

Gerard Dou A Poulterer's Shop
A Poulterer's Shop

Gerard Dou Portrait of a Young Woman
Portrait of a Young Woman
c. 1635-40