Frans van Mieris the Elder
Portrait of Cunera van der Cock, the painter's wife
c. 1657-5816 x 13.3 cm
Oil on vellum on panel
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 265 (as by Gerard Dou)
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 265-266, plate 224
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 455
Literature
Mariët Westermann, Art & home, Zwolle, 2001, fig. 150
Provenance
possibly in the Josua van Belle sale, Rotterdam, 6 September 1730, nr. 63
possibly the small portrait of a woman which was apparently in the collection of Willem Lormier, The Hague, c.1752
?W. Lormier sale, The Hague, 4 July 1763, nr. 68, bought by Yver
?collection of Gottfried Winkler, Leipzig, by 1768 (still there in 1773)
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel sale, Amsterdam, 3 sqq. March 1800, nr. 20 of the paintings, bought by van der Schley
anonymous sale ('a foreign collector'), Amsterdam, 16 sqq. June 1802, nr. 38, bought by Coclers
possibly in the Comte F. de Robiano sale, Brussels, 1 sqq. May 1837, nr. 150, bought by Godde(?)
the Lormier/Winkler painting was in the Duval sale, Phillips, 12-13 May 1846 , nr. 98, as Douw(sic), bought by Paley
[Mrs Wallis] sale, London, 28 March 1893, nr. 147, bought by Horace Buttery
National Gallery, London, purchased from Horace Buttery, June 1894
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Other works by Frans van Mieris the Elder
Self-portrait
An Old Woman Holding a Flower-Pot
The child's lesson
c. 1656-57
c. 1656-57
Portrait of a woman
1673
1673
Portrait of Cunera van der Cock, the painter's wife
1662
1662