Hendrick ter Brugghen
Bagpipe Player
1624101 x 83 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right, in brown paint, HTB in monogram: HTBrugghen fecit 1624
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Paul Mellon Fund and Greg and Candy Fazakerley Fund
Literature
Monographic literature
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Hendrick ter Brugghen's 'Bagpipe player' acquired by the National Gallery of Art, Washington in Burlington Magazine, 1283, 2010 pp. 99-100
Literature
Esmée Quodbach (ed.), Holland's Golden Age in America, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2014, fig. 70
Provenance
Possibly Aernout van Lingen, Utrecht, by 1676
probably with Glenz, Berlin, in 1915
possibly Gustav Klemperer Edler von Klemenau (1852-1926), Dresden
his son, Dr. Herbert von Klemperer (1878-1951), Berlin
sale, Lange, Berlin, 18-19 November 1938, nr. 151
acquired by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, inv. nr. 2613
restituted July 2008 to Klemperer's heirs
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 January 2009, nr. 40
with Johnny Van Haeften London Ltd., London, Otto Naumann, New York, and Bernheimer Fine Art Ltd., Munich
purchased April 2009 by NGA
Other works by Hendrick ter Brugghen
Allegory of Faith
c. 1626
c. 1626
Jacob reproaching Laban for giving him Leah in place of Rachel
1627
1627
King David Playing the Harp
after 1628
after 1628
Jacob, Laban and Leah
Young Woman Tuning a Lute
c. 1627
c. 1627