Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
c. 1625–2623 x 17.4 cm
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005
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Pendant:
Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a Man with a Shell
c. 1625-26
Portrait of a Man with a Shell
c. 1625-26
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 99
Literature
Norbert Middelkoop (ed.), Rembrandt and Amsterdam portraiture, 1590-1670, Madrid, 2020, fig. 62
Provenance
private collection, The Netherlands
with Kurt Walter Bachstitz, The Hague, 1926–27, sold to Pannwitz
Catalina von Pannwitz, Heemstede, The Netherlands, 1927–1950s, transferred to the Aurora Trust
Aurora Trust, 1950s–1988, sold through Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, and Otto Naumann Ltd, New York, to Markus
Frits and Rita Markus, New York, 1988–his death 1996
Rita Markus, New York, 1996–died 2005
Other works by Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a Man with a Shell
c. 1625-26
c. 1625-26
Portrait of Three Children and a Man
1622
1622
Portrait of a man
1631
1631
Odysseus and Nausicaa
1657
1657
Interior with figures