Gerard Dou
The Hermit
167046 x 34.5 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated, lower center on book strap: GDou (GD in ligature) 1670
on right page of book: GDou (GD in ligature)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Timken Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 19
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 56-60
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 381
Exhibitions
2005 Time and Transormation in Seventeenth-Century Art, Nr. 74
2000 Gerrit Dou 1613-1675 - Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt, Nr. 34
1999 A Moral Compass: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Painting in the Netherlands, Nr. 5
Provenance
Probably Kurfürst Karl Albrecht [1697-1745], Munich, by 1742
Kurfürstliche Galerie, Munich
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, by the mid-eighteenth century
deaccessioned in 1927, sold to Van Diemen
with Galerie van Diemen, New York and Berlin
William R. Timken (1866-1949), New York
by inheritance to his wife, Lillian S. Guyer Timken (1881-1959), New York
bequest 1960 to NGA
Other works by Gerard Dou
A Hermit Reading
Sleeping Woman with Two Men
Portrait of a Young Woman
c. 1655
c. 1655
The Young Mother
1658
1658
An Old Woman at Prayer before her Meal
c. 1645-50
c. 1645-50