Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Bauch A7 (Gerard Dou and Rembrandt)
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 261
Giltaij 450 (attributed to Gerard Dou)
Literature
Bernhard Schnackenburg, Jan Lievens, Petersberg, 2016, fig. 196
Exhibitions
2023 Rembrandt and His Contemporaries. History paintings from The Leiden Collection, Nr. 1
Provenance
Possibly Count Joseph von Rechberg (1769–1833), Austria
George Cornwall Legh, M. P. (1804–77), East Hall, High Legh, Knustford, Cheshire
by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martin Cornwall Legh (1839–1904)
Lindo S. Meyers, London
with Kleinberger Galeries, Paris, by 1911
Fritz von Gans, Frankfurt-am-Main, by 1913
with K.W. Bachstitz, The Hague, by 1920
K. Henschel, Kassel, ca. 1924
with Gustav Cramer, Berlin, 1938
K. Erasmus, Aerdenhout, 1938
sale Christie’s, London, 24 February 1939, no. 37, as by Rembrandt to Watson
Philippens, Amsterdam, ca. 1938–40
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York, by 1948
with F.H. Enneking, Amsterdam, 1958
Hans Max Cramer, The Hague, 1958
Heinz Kisters (1912–77), Kreuzlingen, 1959, to Günther and Anne Liese Henle
Günther and Anne Liese Henle, Duisburg
his Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 1997, no. 6, unsold
sale, Christie’s, London, 10 July 2002, no. 70
with Jack Kilgore & Co., New York
with Otto Naumann, New York, 2004
from whom acquired by the present owner
Other works by Gerard Dou
A hermit
Astronomer by Candlelight
c. 1665
c. 1665
A Lace Maker at a Window
Old Woman at a Window
A biblical or historical nocturnal scene