Kalis Boud

Adriaen van de Venne (Dutch, 1589–1662)

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions39.4 × 26 cm (15 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)
Framed: 39.4 × 26 cm (15 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit LineThe Maida and George Abrams Collection—Museum acquisition with funds donated by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2020.395

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ClassificationsPaintings

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Provenance1673, probably Cornelis van Loo and Dorothea Olyvan, Haarlem [see note 1]. 1970, Dutch private collection [see note 2]; 1970/1971, sold from this collection to Galerie Friederike Pallamar, Vienna [see note 3]. By 1973, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London; 1974, sold by Alan Jacobs Gallery to George S. Abrams and Maida Abrams, Newton, MA; 2020, sold by George S. Abrams to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2020)

NOTES:
[1] In their inventory as “Calus Bende”. This identification was first proposed by Mariët Westermann, “Fray en Leelijck: Adriaen van de Venne's Invention of the Ironic Grisaille,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 50 (1999): p. 257, n. 64. [2] According to a letter from Friedrike Pallamar to James Welu at the Worcester Art Museum (November 10, 1984). Walther Bernt provided an expertise for the painting on September 10, 1970, when it was privately owned. [3] The painting was included in the exhibition “Gemälde holländischer und flämischer Meister des 17. Jahrhunderts,” Galerie Friederike Pallamar, Vienna, November 15-December 31, 1971, cat. no. 27.