Gerard Dou
Self-portrait
18.9 x 14.7 cmOil on panel
Signed on the right, in the centre GDOV (GD in monogram)
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W. Martin 53
HdG 272
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 257
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, p. 106, plate 90
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 194
Provenance
probably in the Pieter Locquet sale, Amsterdam, 22 sqq. September 1783, nr. 76 bought by van Braam Helsdingen
possibly in the Anna Catharina Putnam sale, Amsterdam, 17 August 1803, nr. 23 bought by Roos
probably in the collection of Paignon Dijonval, Paris, the major part of which was bought by him in Holland, C.1731, the rest between then and c.1750
Paignon Dijonval collection by descent to Vicomte de Morel Vindé
certainly Paignon Dijonval and Morel Vindé sale, Paris, 17-18 December 1821, nr. 21, bought by Hazard
Jeremiah Harman by 1842
J. Harman sale, London, 17-18 May 1844, nr. 34, purchased for the National Gallery
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Other works by Gerard Dou
Anna and the Blind Tobit
c. 1630
c. 1630
The Pancake Baker
c. 1650-55
c. 1650-55
A Hermit Reading
Sleeping Woman with Two Men
The Hermit
1670
1670