Gerrit Dou

Said to be in the collection of King William III (1650-1702);

Gerard Bicker van Zwieten II (1687-1753), The Hague;

His sale, The Hague, 12 April 1741, lot 67;

Where acquired by Hendrik van Heteren (1672-1749), The Hague, for 400 guilders;

Thence by inheritance to his son, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren (1722-1800), The Hague, by 1752;

Thence by descent to Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers (1794-1866), Rotterdam;

From whom acquired en bloc by King Louis Napoleon for the Koninklijk Museum (now, the Rijksmuseum), Amsterdam, 8 June 1809;

By whom deaccessioned and sold, Amsterdam, Roos, 4 August 1828, lot 45;

Where acquired by Thomas Emmerson, London, for 510 guilders;

Charles Brind (1788-1848), London;

His estate sale, London, Christie's, 10-12 May 1849, lot 65;

Where acquired by Thomas Baring, MP (1799-1873), London;

Thence by inheritance to his nephew, Thomas George Baring (1826-1904), 1st Earl of Northbrook, London;

Thence by descent to his son, Francis George Baring (1850-1929), 2nd Earl of Northbrook, London;

With Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, 1976;

Michal and Renata Hornstein, Montreal, by 1983;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.

G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, met derzelver prijzen zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt..., The Hague 1752, vol. II, p. 454;

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters..., vol. I, London 1829, pp. 7, 36, cat. nos. 13 and 103;

Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, with which the Proprietors have Favoured the Institution, exhibition catalogue, London 1848, p. 16, cat. no. 151;

G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss., London 1854, vol. II, p. 183;

Lord R. Gower, The Northbrook Gallery: An Illustrated Descriptive and Historic Account of the Collection of the Earl of Northbrook, G.C.S.I., London 1885, p. 31;

W.H.J. Weale and J.P. Richter, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook, London 1889, p. 43, cat. no. 53

Exhibition of Pictures by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London 1900, pp. 27-28, cat. no. 27;

W. Martin, Het leven en de werken van Gerrit Dou, beschouwd in verband met het schildersleven van zijn tijd, Leiden 1901, p. 190, cat. no. 56;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. I, London 1908, p. 360, cat. no. 54;

W. Martin, Gérard Dou, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris 1911, p. 166, cat. no. 19 (as "Vieillard écrivant, le père de Rembrandt");

W. Martin, Gerard Dou: des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart and Berlin 1913, pp. 63, 191, reproduced (as "The Father of Rembrandt writing");

K. Bauch, Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit, Berlin 1960, p. 218;

Master Paintings: Recent Acquisitions, exhibition catalogue, London 1976, p. 8, cat. no. 10, reproduced;

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. I, Landau and Pfalz 1983, p. 530, cat. no. 267;

A. Blankert, in The Impact of A Genius: Rembrandt, his Pupils and Followers in the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1983, pp. 18-19, reproduced fig. 6;

R. Hunnewell, Gerrit Dou's Self Portraits and Depictions of the Artist, Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University 1983, pp. 172-180, 282, cat. no. 1;

O. Naumann, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, P.C. Sutton (ed.), Philadelphia 1984, pp. 181-182, cat. no. 31, reproduced pl. 52;

E.J. Sluijter, M. Enklaar, and P. Nieuwenhuizen, Leidse Fijnschilders, Van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge, 1630-1760, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 1988, p. 56, 116, reproduced fig. 22;

F.J. Duparc, The Renata and Michal Hornstein Collection, European Old Masters, Montreal 1990, unpublished manuscript, n.p., cat. no. 30;

R. Baer, The Paintings of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675), Ph.D. dissertation, New York University 1990, n.p., cat. no. 9, reproduced;

C. Brown, in Rembrandt: the Master & his Workshop, Paintings, exhibition catalogue, C. Brown, J. Kelch, and P. van Thiel (eds.), New Haven and London 1991, p. 304, cat. no. 56, reproduced;

A. Chong, in De Zichtbaere Werelt: schilderkunst uit de Gouden Eeuw in Hollands oudste stad, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 1992, p. 238 note 3;

Bilder vom alten Menschen, in der niederländischen und deutschen Kunst 1550-1750, exhibition catalogue, Braunschweig 1993, p. 88, reproduced fig. 80;

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. VI, Landau and Pfalz 1994, p. 3596, cat. no. 267;

R. Baer, Gerrit Dou 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London 2000, pp. 68-69, cat. no. 3, reproduced;

G. Korevaar, in Rembrandt's Mother, Myth and Reality, exhibition catalogue, C. Vogelaar and G. Korevaar (eds.), Zwolle 2005, p. 188, reproduced fig. 136;

J.P.F. Kok, "The 1828 Sale of Paintings from the Rijksmuseum," in The Rijksmuseum Bulletin (2009), pp. 288, 299, reproduced fig. 5;

A.E. Waiboer, A.K. Wheelock, Jr., and B. Ducos, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London 2017, p. 56, reproduced fig. 32;

A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 50-52, 167, cat. no. 9, reproduced.

London, British Institution, June 1848, no. 151 (lent by Charles Brind, Esq.);

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Pictures by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 1900, no. 27 (lent by the Earl of Northbrook, G.C.S.I.);

Philadelphia Museum of Art; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, 18 March - 18 November 1984, no. 31;

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum; London, National Gallery, Rembrandt: the Master & his Workshop, 12 September 1991 - 24 May 1992, no. 56;

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; London, Dulwich Picture Gallery; The Hague, Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, Gerrit Dou 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt, 16 April 2000 - 25 February 2001, no. 3;

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 9.