Circle of Gerard Dou (Leiden 1613-1675)

An old woman reading a book

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Circle of Gerard Dou (Leiden 1613-1675)
An old woman reading a book
oil on panel, oval
26 x 21.4 cm.

Jean Dollfus, His deceased estate sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 20 May 1912, lot 44, as Gerard Dou.
Adrien Dollfus, Paris.

W. Martin, Het leven en de werken van Gerrit Dou beschouwd in verband met het schildersleven van zijn tijd, Leiden, 1901, p. 184.
W. Martin, Gerard Dou, sa vie et son oeuvre. Étude sur la peinture hollandaise et les marchands au dix-septième siècle, trans. by L. Dimier, Paris, 1911, p. 178, no. 90, as Gerard Dou ("Replica of the previous painting, no. 1720 in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. Of a lesser quality; this one is perhaps an earlier version").
W. Martin, Gerard Dou: des Meisters Gemälde in 247 Abbildungen, Stuttgart, 1913, p. 41, illustrated.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, I, Cambridge, 1976, pp. 454-5, no. 355, as Gerard Dou.

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The present composition derrives from the prototype in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (inv. no. 1720).

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