Gerard Dou

Illustration number 1001162584
Dimensions: 490x650 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait) with rounded upper side 26.7 x 19.5 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1650-1670 (1650 - 1670)

c. 1670 (Baer 1990); c. 1658-1665 (Gaskell 1989); c. 1650-1655 (Martin 1913)
Created in: Leiden (city)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Jonge vrouw met kaars in een venster
English title: Young woman with candle in a window
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: genre, one human figure, in a window, young woman, laughing, low neckline, bodice, candle-lighting, relief, pulled-aside curtain/drapery

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

used as model for
Godefridus Schalcken, Meisje met een brandende kaars, dat een gordijn opzij schuift
Schalcken adopted the subject of a young woman with a candle, opening a curtain, her general pose and the low cut neckline of the woman's dress. (as observed by E. Schavemaker)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Carl von Hollitscher, Berlin
1901 - reported
private collection Heinrich baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, Schloss Rohoncz
1930 - acquired before 1930
private collection Hans Heinrich baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano/Castagnola (Tessin)
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (Spain) , inv./cat.nr 132 (1930.21)

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Martin 1901 , p. 237, no. 329
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 1 (1907), p. 415-416, no. 229
Martin 1913 , p. 152, ill. , as to be dated c. 1650-1655
Gaskell 1989 , p. 234-239, no. 51, color ill. , as to be dated c. 1658-1665
Baer 1990 , no. 122

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

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Creation date: 2014-08-22; Last modified date: 2021-12-14

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