Gerard Dou
Portrait of a Young Woman
c. 165514.5 x 11.7 cm
oil on panel
Signed on the left, centre: GDOV (GD linked)
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W. Martin 103
HdG 364
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 303
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, p. 108, plate 92
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 195
Exhibitions
2007 Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals, Nr. 12
2000 Gerrit Dou 1613-1675 - Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt, Nr. 22
Provenance
collection of Robert de Saint-Victor, Rouen
R. de Saint-Victor sale, Paris, 26 November 1822 to 7 January 1823, nr. 95, bought by Mme Hazard
according to HdG, in the Paignon Dijonval and Morel Vindé sale, Paris, 17-19 December 1821, but it is not in the sale catalogue
Fonthill Abbey sale, 10 sqq. October 1823, nr. 220, bought by Townley
Henry Fulton sale, London, 20 June 1834, nr. 93, bought by Brind
Charles Brind sale, London, 12 May 1849, nr, 47, bought by Emery
National Gallery, London, Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876
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Other works by Gerard Dou
Sleeping Woman with Two Men
The Hermit
1670
1670
The Young Mother
1658
1658
An Old Woman at Prayer before her Meal
c. 1645-50
c. 1645-50
Woman at her Toilet
1667
1667