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Portrait of a Young Woman
Aert de Gelder · c. 1690
Provenance
Ownership history
- Probably Hugh Ker Colville, Bellaport Hall, Shropshire, England [according to London 1929]. Collection D. A. J. Kessler, The Hague [according to St. Louis 1922]. Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1922 [lent by him to St. Louis, 1922; acquisition date according to Sutton 2008]. D. A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam [lent by him to London 1929]; purchased by the Art Institute, 1932.1175.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- St. Louis City Art Museum, Exhibition of Dutch Pictures from the 15th–20th Century, Collection Goudstikker, 1922, cat. 39.
- New York, Anderson Gallery, Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Pictures XV to XX Century from the Goudstikker Collection of Amsterdam, March 10–April 7, 1923, cat. 41.
- The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, November 3–December 2, 1923, cat. 35.
- Dordrecht, Pictura, Keuze-tentoonstelling van werken door Dordtsche meesters, 17e, 18e, en eerste helft der19e eeuw, October 1–19, 1924, no. 26.
- Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Collectie Goudstikker, December 20, 1924–January 11, 1925, cat. 24.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Dutch Art, January–March 1929, cat. 288.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 60.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 89.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Rembrandt and his Circle, December 19, 1935–January 19, 1936, no. 17; traveled to Worcester Art Museum, Rembrandt and his Circle, February 4–March 1, 1936, no. 18.
- Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, 43 Portraits, January 26–February 10, 1937, no. 18.
- Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Seventh Anniversary Exhibition of German, Flemish, and Dutch Paintings, December, 1940–January, 1941, no. 23.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dutch Painting: The Golden Age, An Exhibition of Dutch Pictures of the Seventeenth Century, 1954–1955, no. 25; traveled to The Toledo Museum of Art; The Art Gallery of Toronto (New York and Toledo venues only).
Literature
Published references
- Kurt Bauch, “Ausstellung Holländischer Kunst von 1450–1900 in London,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 63 (1929–30), p. 20.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1932 (Chicago, 1933), pp. 18, 35, ill.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “A Portrait by Arent de Gelder,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 27, 2 (1933), pp. 34–36, cover ill.
- “Chicago Gets Work by Rembrandt’s Last Pupil,” Art Digest 7, 10 (1933), pp. 27–28, ill.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Chicago Acquires Arent de Gelder,” Art News 31, 21 (1933), p. 14.
- Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), p. 23, ill.
- C. J. Bulliet, Art Masterpieces in a Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1933), no. 51, ill.
- Hans Tietze, Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika (Vienna, 1935), p. 338, no. 191, pl. 191; translated (New York, 1939).
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Rembrandt as a Teacher,” in Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Rembrandt and his Circle, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 11.
- “Chicago Holds Rembrandt Show of Wide Interest,” Art News 34, 14 (1936), p. 5.
- Coronet 1, 2 (1936), cover ill.
- Paul Gardner, “Northern Painting: 1400–1700,” Art News 39, 10 (1940), p. 8.
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