Gerard Dou
Self-portrait
c. 166548.9 x 39.1 cm
Oil on wood
Signed left, on ledge: GDO[U] (initials in monogram)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Related works
Copy:
Etienne Compardel
The Painter Gerard Dou
1665 or after
The Painter Gerard Dou
1665 or after
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 37
Literature
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the masters of genre painting, Dublin, Washington, Paris, New Haven and London, 2017, fig. 56
Provenance
?Johan de Bye, Leiden, in 1665
Voyer d'Argenson, Paris, in 1754
chevalier Sébastien Erard, Château de la Muette, Passy, 1825–died 1831
his estate sale, Paris, 23 April–7 August 1832, nr. 76, bought in
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 22 June 1833, nr. 40
with Étienne Le Roy, Brussels
Kalkbrenner, Paris, in 1842
M. Piérard, Valenciennes, until 1860
his estate sale, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, 20-21 March 1860, nr. 17, to Baring
A. Schloss, Paris, from about 1905
?Henry Say, Paris
with Scott & Fowles, New York, until 1907, sold to Altman
Benjamin Altman, New York, 1907–died 1913
Other works by Gerard Dou
A Hermit
An Interior, with a Woman eating Porridge
The tooth puller
A Poulterer's Shop
Portrait of a Young Woman
c. 1635-40
c. 1635-40