Young Woman at an Open Half-Door

1. De Gueffier, Paris; sold Paillet, Paris, 1 March 1791, no. 67, “Une jeune Fille du pays de Frise, appuyée devant une croisée” (a young girl from Friesland leaning on a half-door”) together with a painting at half-length of a young soldier in armor, buckling his sword belt. François-Antoine Robit, Paris, sold Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, May 11 and following, 1801, no. 120, as a pendant to no. 119, portrait of a young warrior, for 2500 fr. to Lafontaine as an agent for Michael Bryan [see Edwards 1996, p. 304]; to George Hibbert, London [Hibbert and Sir Simon Clarke supplied the funds for Bryan’s extensive purchases at the Robit sale and retained many of the pictures]; offered for sale, Christie’s London, 13 1829, no. 68, bought in; by descent to Nathaniel Hibbert, until until 1875 [lent by him to London 1857 and memorandum dated April 28, 1905 of a conversation with Holland Hibbert in the Art Institute archives; copy in curatorial file]; by descent to A. Holland Hibbert [for this and the following transaction see the memorandum cited above]; sold by him to Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885), San Donato, 1880; offered for sale Florence, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, March 15-April 10, 1880, no. 1114, engraved, bought in [a half-length of a young warrior buckling his sword belt was no. 1120 in this sale, also engraved, and sold with 1894.1022 in the Gueffier, Robit and Hibbert sales, see Bikker 2005, no. R21]; 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 1894.1022 was re-imbursed by Ryerson.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, British Institution, Pictures of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French Schools, 1818, no. 100.
• London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and deceased English masters, 1844, no. 23.
• London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English masters, 1857, no. 87.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Works of Old Dutch Masters, 1890, no. 5.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Sculptures and other objects exhibited during the World’s Congresses, 1893, no. 5.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909, no. 91.
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt, no. 42.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, 1933, no. 75.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, 1934, no. 107.
• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt Tentoonstelling, 1935, no. 12.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Rembrandt and his Circle, 1935/1936, no. 4, traveled to Worcester Art Museum.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by the Great Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 1942, no. 27.

• W[illiam] Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution, vol. 2, London, 1824, p. 72, no. 163.
• John Smith, A Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 7, London, 1836, no. 532.
• C. Vosmaer, Rembrandt. Sa vie et ses oeuvres, 2nd ed., The Hague, 1877, p. 538.
• L[ouis] G[onse], “La vente de San Donato,” Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 11, March 13, 1880, pp. 82-83.
• Wilhelm Bode, Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei, vol. 2, Braunschweig, 1883, pp. 497, 609, no. 373.
• Eugène Dutuit, Tableaux et dessins de Rembrandt. Catalogue historique et descriptif. Supplément à l’oeuvre complet du Rembrandt, Paris, 1885, pp. 9, 11, 21, 68, no. 310.
• Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1891, pp. 10-11, 31, no. 5.
• Emile Michel, Rembrandt, sa vie, son oeuvre et son temps, Paris, 1893, French ed.?
• Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1895, p. 43.
• Wilhelm Bode and C. Hofstede de Groot, The Complete Work of Rembrandt. History, description and heliographic reproduction of all the master’s pictures with a study of his life and his art, vol. 4, 1900, no. 301, fig. 301.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and other Objects of Art in the Museum, 1901, no. 11, ill.
• Malcolm Bell, Rembrandt van Rijn, London, 1901, p. 156.

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