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Old Woman Eating
Quirijn van BrekelenkamMid-17th century
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Old Woman Eating
- Creator Lifespan: after 1622 - c.1669
- Date: Mid-17th century
- Physical Dimensions: w405 x h479 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: Look up Buchanan, i, 279, re purchase at Bryan sale. ie. Bryan Sale, 1798, bt Desenfans (acc. to Denning MS cat.). Look up Orléans sale - not in GPI. A copy by Henry Alexander Graham (d. 1881) in the collection of Judge Irvine, Oxford (letter in file).
- Work Nationality: Dutch
- Support: Panel
- Provenance: Paris, Louis-Philippe, Duc d' Orléans, by 1739 (as Dou; Princess Victoria Series, i); London, Noel Desenfans, ?1786-1807: ?London, Christie's, Desenfans sale, [EXACT DATE ], 1786 lot 35 ('Dutch Conversation'); London, Skinner and Dyke, Desenfans sale, 17 Mar. 1802, lot 104 (Descriptive Catalogue no. 129) (as Gerard Dou); 1804 Insurance List, no. X, as Brekelenkam; London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Further Information: Catalogued as Dou (q.v.), from whom the motif derives, until 1905, when given to Brekelenkam. This attribution is rejected by Lasius, though still accepted by F. Meijer (oral communication, 1997). Hofstede de Groot suggested an attribution to Abraham de Pape (1620-66), which seems possible (note on photograph mount in Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague). A copy bearing the monogram of Dominicus van Tol (c.1635-1676) was sold at Sotheby's, 16 June 1965 (lot 89).
- Attributed to: van Brekelenkam, Quiringh
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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