Gerard Dou
Portrait of Dirck van Beresteyn
c. 165210.2 x 8.2 cm
Oil on silver-copper alloy
Signed in blue paint at upper right: G Dou (GD in ligature)
The Leiden Collection, New York
Provenance
Herman de Kat van Oost- en West-Barendrecht, Dordrecht, by 1854
his sale, Paris, Lamme and Petit, 2 May 1866, nr. 24, for 170 francs
M*** Collection
sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 1 February 1875, nr. 22
Mrs. U.M. Kneppelhout-van Braam Egbert de Langen and Count Bottaro Costa
sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Müller, 16 December 1919, nr. 19
Dr. E.A. van Beresteyn, The Hague
by descent to his wife Mrs. Van Beresteyn Vierhouten, by 1952
sale, Christie’s, London, 17 April 2002, nr. 43 (to van Haeften, Ltd. and Otto Naumann Ltd.)
with Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London and Otto Naumann Ltd., New York (through Derek Johns Ltd., London)
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2003
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Other works by Gerard Dou
Self/portrait
Young boy
A Young Woman with a Candle
Scholar Sharpening His Quill
c. 1632-35
c. 1632-35
Portrait of an Artist at his Easel