Gerard Dou

A cottage interior with an old woman ('Rembrandt's Mother') delousing a boy's hair



Gerard Dou - A cottage interior with an old woman ('Rembrandt's Mother') delousing a boy's hair



Gerard Dou
A cottage interior with an old woman ('Rembrandt's Mother') delousing a boy's hair
37.3 x 30.2 cm
Oil on panel
Signed lower left, on the barrel: GDOV ('DOV' indistinct)
Sale Christie's, London, 1 July 2025


Provenance


(Possibly) Acquired by Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria (1662-1726) for his Gallery in Schloss Schleißheim, where certainly by 1776, and by descent in the Bavarian Royal Collections until 1836 (inv. 961), when transferred to the newly-constructed Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. no. 579), by whom exchanged with four other works for Jacob Jordaens, Allegorie der Fruchtbarkeit (inv. no. 10411), with Edouard Plietzsch on behalf of the following,
with Paul Graupe, Berlin and Paris, where acquired on 22 March 1938 by,
Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, and thence by descent
Sale Christie's, Property of the Heirs of Daniël George van Beuningen, London, 1 July 2025, nr. 17

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