The Music Lesson

1. Possibly sold Amsterdam, October 1, 1738, no. 19 for 200 florins [according to Gudlaugsson 1960; see Gerard Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van Schilderyen (The Hague, 1752), p. 556]. Probably Johan Pieter Wierman, Leyden; his sale, Amsterdam, August 18, 1762, no. 34 to Diemen [price and buyer according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; although the provenance of this painting and the Getty example have been confused in the past, the AIC view was probably in the Wierman collection because the music master is described as beating time with a – strykstok – or bow]. Probably Jan Jacob Brants (died 1813); sold his sale Pieter Yver, Amsterdam, April 20, 1813, lot 30 for 275 florins to Jer. deVries [price and buyer according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; although the provenance of this painting and the Getty example have been confused in the past, the AIC view was probably in the Brants collection because the music master is described as beating time with a – strijkstok – or bow]. Possibly John Fairlie, Esq. [according to Smith 1833]; possibly his sale, 1830, for 130 gs to Michael Peacock [sale information according to Smith 1833]; possibly Michael Peacock (died 1843), London; possibly sold his sale Foster and Son, February 28, 1844, lot 12. Presumably Prince Anatole Demidoff, Villa San Donato, near Florence (died 1870); by descent to his nephew Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885), San Donato; offered for sale Florence, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, March 15-April 10, 1880, no. 1049, bought in; by descent to Princess Demidoff (formerly Princess Lise Troubetzkoi), 1885; sold through Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1890, as part of a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, with funds advanced by Martin A. Ryerson and other trustees of the Art Institute [annual report 1891]; the cost of 1891.1 was re-imbursed by Charles T. Yerkes.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Detroit Institute of Arts, The Ninth Loan Exhibition: Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, October 16–November 10, 1929, no. 74.
• New York World’s Fair, European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800, May–October 1939, no. 368.
• City Art Museum of St. Louis, 40 Masterpieces: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings from American Museums, October 6–November 10, 1947, no. 37.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 79.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 113.

• John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 4 (London, 1833), p. 124, no. 20.
• “Famous Pictures for Chicago,” Chicago Daily Tribune (July 3, 1890).
• “Notes on Current Art,” Chicago Daily Tribune (July 6, 1890), p. 32.
• “Chicago an Art Center,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 9, 1890, p. 1.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Works of Old Dutch Masters and Other Pictures (Chicago, 1890), p. 19, no. 6.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1901), pp. 147, no. 15.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1904), p. 152–53, no. 15.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Important Facts Regarding the Art Institute of Chicago: with Reproductions of the Demidoff Masterpieces (Chicago, 1905), pp. 8–9.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago, 1910), pp. 161–62.
• Franz Hellens, Gérard Terborch (Brussels, 1911), p. 127.
• C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 5 (London, 1913), pp. 46, 47–48, 54, no. 130.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago, 1917), p. 113, no. 15, ill.

Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614–1676)

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Curiosity

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Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)

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A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier

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A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid

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A Seated Huntsman

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Carriage In A Landscape

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The Van Moerkerken Family

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