Gerard Dou

Self-Portrait of the Artist in his Art Cabinet



Gerard Dou - Self-Portrait of the Artist in his Art Cabinet



Gerard Dou
Self-Portrait of the Artist in his Art Cabinet
1647
43.5 x 34.7 cm.
Oil on panel
Signed and dated, mid-left on table: GDov 1647 (GD in ligature)
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 269
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 274

Collection catalogues
Harald Marx, Gemäldegalerie Dresden Alte Meister, Leipzig, 2008, p. 162

Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 216
Stephanie S. Dickey (ed.), Rembrandt and his circle, Amsterdam, 2017, fig. 3.10
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 102, fig. 21



Provenance

Count August Christoph von Wackerbarth before 1711
Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony (and, as Augustus II, King of Poland), Dresden, bought from Wackerbarth before 1723
from 1918 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
1945 transported to the Soviet Union
1955 returned to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden from Moscow
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External links

RKD 249990
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Accession number Gal.-Nr. 1704

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Gerard Dou Young Woman and Young Man in a Wine Cellar
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Gerard Dou The doctor
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Gerard Dou Anna and the Blind Tobit
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c. 1630

Gerard Dou The Pancake Baker
The Pancake Baker
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