Exhibitions

2025 Art and Life in Rembrandt's Time

Provenance

Probably Maximilian II Emanuel (1679–1726), Elector of Bavaria
Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700–63), Chancellor of Saxony, by 1750
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729–96), by 1769
by gift to Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov (1743–1831)
by descent to his grandson Count Vladimir Petrovich Orlov-Davydov (1809–82)
by descent to his son Count Anatoli Vladimirovich Orlov-Davydov (d. 1905), St. Petersburg, until 1905
with Count Orloff Davidoff, Petrograd
Henry Blank, Newark, by 1929, until 1940s
Sidney van den Bergh, Wassenaar, by 1952
Charles Napper (1910–72), London to Duits for £8,500
with Duits & Co., Ltd. London, to Edgar for £9,000
with Robert Edgar, April 1961
private collection (Robert Edgar), England
sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 2005, nr. 93 (as by follower of Dou), withdrawn
sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 2006, nr. 7 to van Haeften
with Johnny van Haeften, London, 2006
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2006
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External links

Leiden Collection, New York Accession number GD-106

Other works by Gerard Dou

Reading hermit

Old woman with a spinning wheel

The Astronomer

Portrait of a Scholar

An Old Woman with Poultry at a Window by Candlelicht
1671