Self-Portrait
Gerrit Dou
(Dutch, 1613–1675)
about 1665
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions58.1 x 43.2 cm (22 7/8 x 17 in.)
Framed: 81.3 x 65.1 x 8.9 cm (32 x 25 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Framed: 81.3 x 65.1 x 8.9 cm (32 x 25 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession number2019.2083
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On viewClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceProbably after 1845, Dawson-Damer family [see note 1]. Possibly Baroness Charlotte von Rothschild (b. 1807 – d. 1859); her daughter, Baroness Mathilde von Rothschild (b. 1832 – d. 1924), Frankfurt [see note 2]. By 1932, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam. 1932, Ernest Masurel (b. 1886 - d. 1974), Roubaix, France. Private collection, France. 1997, sold by Johnny van Haeften Ltd., London, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA [see note 3]; 2019, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)
NOTES:
[1] A wax seal of the Dawson-Damer family crest is on the back of the painting. This version of the crest probably dates to just after 1845, when Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington, inherited the title from his uncle, John Dawson.
[2] According to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1 (1908), cat. nos. 75 and 271, the painting was “in the collection of the late Baroness von Rothschild, Frankfort”. This may be Charlotte von Rothschild, whose daughter, Mathilde (Baroness Wilhelm von Rothschild) was listed as the owner by W. Martin, Gerard Dou: Des Meisters Gemälde (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1913), p. 198.
[3] Provenance from 1932 to 1997 is taken from Frederik Duparc, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (New Haven, 2011), cat. no. 20.
NOTES:
[1] A wax seal of the Dawson-Damer family crest is on the back of the painting. This version of the crest probably dates to just after 1845, when Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington, inherited the title from his uncle, John Dawson.
[2] According to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1 (1908), cat. nos. 75 and 271, the painting was “in the collection of the late Baroness von Rothschild, Frankfort”. This may be Charlotte von Rothschild, whose daughter, Mathilde (Baroness Wilhelm von Rothschild) was listed as the owner by W. Martin, Gerard Dou: Des Meisters Gemälde (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1913), p. 198.
[3] Provenance from 1932 to 1997 is taken from Frederik Duparc, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (New Haven, 2011), cat. no. 20.
Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
