Gerard Dou

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 66 (Rembrandt)
Bredius -
Bauch A6 (Gerard Dou and Rembrandt)
Gerson -
Corpus I C 3 (attributed to Gerard Dou)
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 243
Giltaij 542 (Rembrandt workshop)

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 109-110, plate 93
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 560 (Rembrandt)
David Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Axel Rüger, Raymond White, Rembrandt, London; [New Haven, Conn.], 2006, nr. 2

Literature
Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt zijn leven, zijn schilderijen, Maarssen, 1984, fig. 35
Richard Verdi, Rembrandt's themes, New Haven, 2014, fig. 127
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt's rivals, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. V-69 (as Rembrandt (and Gerrit Dou?))

Exhibitions

2019 Young Rembrandt, Nr. 64
2005 Rembrandt's Mother. Myth and Reality, Nr. 60
1991 Rembrandt: the Master & his Workshop, Nr. 55

Provenance

there was a painting of about the same size, attributed to Rembrandt, of Tobias old and blind and Anna spinning, in the collection of the Unshod Carmelites at the Convent of San Hermenegildo, Madrid, by 1776 (the collection was largely dispersed by 1814) but this was probably of different composition
collection of John Bell, Glasgow
John Bell sale at North Park, Glasgow, 1-5 February 1881, nr. 357
apparently bought by Sir Renny Watson of Braco Castle, Perthshire
by descent to Denis Elliot Watson, London
National Gallery, London, purchased from Denis Elliot Watson, 1926
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Iconclass

71T74 Old Tobit (and Anna) waiting and worrying about the long absence of their son; sometimes Anna is shown at the spinning-wheel

External links

RKD 57457
National Gallery, London Accession number NG4189

Other works by Gerard Dou

Self-Portrait of the Artist in his Art Cabinet
1647

The doctor
1653

The Pancake Baker
c. 1650-55

Self-portrait

A Hermit Reading