Gerard van Honthorst

Old woman examining a coin by a lantern (Sight or Avarice)



Gerard van Honthorst - Old woman examining a coin by a lantern (Sight or Avarice)



Gerard van Honthorst
Old woman examining a coin by a lantern (Sight or Avarice)
c. 1623
75 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
The Kremer Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Judson & Ekkart 229

Literature
Christiaan Vogelaar and Gerbrand Korevaar, Rembrandt's Mother, Zwolle, 2005, fig. 53



Provenance

with Thomas Loridon de Ghellinck, Ghent, by 1790
his sale, De Goesin-Verhaeghe, Ghent, 3 September 1821, nr. 88 to Deschamps
possibly Alexandre van der Finck, Brussels
his sale, Brussels, 25 November 1904, nr. 24
H.C. du Bois, The Hague
his sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 27 November 1906, nr. 260
anonymous sale, Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, 28-29 April 1908, nr. 212
anonymous sale, Amsterdam, 29 June 1920, nr. 121
anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 26 May 1924, nr. 129
with L. Wolff & Co., London
anonylous sale, Van Marle, Rotterdam, 28 January 1942, nr. 185
P. de Jong, Rotterdam, 1952
anonymous sale, Brandt, Amsterdam, 3-9 November 1964, nr. 37
anonymous sale, Mak, Dordrecht, 17 June 1980, nr. 87
private collection, The Netherlands (on loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2001-2005)
with Johnny van Haeften Gallery, London, 2005
where acquired by George and Ilone Kremer, September 2005
lent by them to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2006-2010
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