GERRIT DOU (LEIDEN 1613-1675)

Lot 21
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Lot 21 | GERRIT DOU (LEIDEN 1613-1675)
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GERRIT DOU (LEIDEN 1613-1675)

A young woman holding a hare with a boy at a window

signed 'GDOV' ('GD' linked, center right, on the lantern)

oil on panel

20 7/8 x 14 ½ in. (53.2 x 37.8 cm.)





Provenance

Paulus, Heer van Santvoort Loot (1673-1753), Amsterdam, and by bequest to his widow,

Margareta Verhamme (1722-1753), Amsterdam; (†) her sale, Amsterdam, 16 March 1757, lot 2, where acquired for 2,500 florins by,

Jan Bisschop (d. 1771), Rotterdam, from whom acquired by,

John Hope (1737-1784) and his uncle, Adrian Hope (1709-1781), Amsterdam, and by descent to the former's eldest son,

Thomas Hope (1769-1831), Amsterdam and London, under the tutelage of his mother, Philippa Barbara van der Haven (?-1790), until 1790, and then of his father’s cousin, Henry Hope (1735-1811), until full ownership in 1794, and by descent to his eldest son,

Henry Thomas Hope (1808-1862), London, and by bequest to his widow,

Anne Adèle Hope, née Bichat (1814-1884), and by descent to her grandson,

Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1866-1941), 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, London and Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, from whom acquired in 1898 by the following,

with Asher Wertheimer and P. & D. Colnaghi, London.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Salon rouge, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris, and by descent to,

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 84).

Acquired by Hermann Göring (1893-1946) from the above on 5 November 1940 (no. RM 966).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives section from Berchtesgaden (no. 704) and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 29 July 1945 (MCCP no. 5752).

Returned to France on 20 September 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, I, London, 1829, pp. 5-6, no. 7, where valued at 500 gns.

G.F. Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England, II, London, 1838, p. 331.

G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss., &c. &c, II, London, 1854, pp. 116-117.

W. Martin, Het leven en de werken van Gerrit Dou beschouwd in verband met het schildersleven van zijn tijd, Leiden, 1901, p. 223, no. 259.

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Salon rouge, ‘Un tableau de Gérard Dou – 30.000 francs’).

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, I, London, 1907, p. 413, no. 196.

E. Wiersum, Het schilderijen-kabinet van Jan Bisschop te Rotterdam, 1910, 28th year, 3, p. 174.

W. Martin, Gérard Dou. Sa Vie et son Oeuvre. Étude sur la peinture hollandaise et les marchands du dix-septième siècle, L. Dimier, trans., Paris, 1911, p. 206, no. 265.

A. Graves, Summary of and Index to Waagen, London, 1912, p. 57.

C. Frégnac, Belles demeures de Paris. 16e-19e siècle, Paris, 1977, illustrated in situ p. 74 and p. 259, illustrated in black and white in situ p. 254.

C. Frégnac, W. Andrews, The Great Houses of Paris, London, 1979, illustrated in situ p. 74 and p. 259, illustrated in black and white in situ p. 254.

J.W. Niemeijer, 'De kunstverzameling van John Hope (1737-1784)', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1981, XXXII, pp. 166 and 178.

R. Baer, The Paintings of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675), Ph.D. dissertation, 1990, under Appendix A, as 'perhaps Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit'.

N.H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice. The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas, 2009, pp. 143 and 357, no. A976, illustrated.

Les Archives diplomatiques, J.-M. Dreyfus, Le Catalogue Goering, Paris, 2015, pp. 436-437, no. RM966/F1229, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Pall Mall, British Institution. Pictures now exhibiting, 1815, no. 73.

London, Pall Mall, British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, 1854, no. 65.

Manchester, Museum of Ornamental Art, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 1045.

London, Pall Mall, British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, 1866, no. 11.

London, South Kensington Museum, Catalogue of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, the Property of Mrs. Henry Thomas Hope, on loan to the South Kensington Museum, 1869, no. 52.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Including a collection of drawings by John Flaxman, R. A., 1881, no. 97.

London, South Kensington Museum, A Catalogue of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools lent to the South Kensington Museum by Lord Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope, 1891, no. 15.
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