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A Portrait of a Woman
by Jan de Bray
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, center right, in black chalk: "AETAT: 56/Ao 1650"; inscribed verso, upper center in graphite: "45"; lower center, in graphite: "54/4 dBray f"
Exhibition history
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Kabinet van Tekeningen: 16e en 17e eeuwse Hollandse en Vlaamse tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse verzameling, Nov. 25, 1976–Jan. 9, 1977, pp. 16–17, nos. 26 and 27, pl. 82; also Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Jan. 20–Mar. 6, 1977, and Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, Mar. 19–Apr. 30, 1977. Art Institute of Chicago, Van Dyck, Rembrandt and the Portrait Print, Mar. 5–Aug. 7, 2016, p, 18, 23, figs. 7a and 7b, cats. 100 and 101. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 41, 43 (ill.), 44, 290-91, 329 (ill.), cat. 9, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
J. W. von Moltke, “Jan de Bray”, in Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, 11-12 (1938-39), p. 421-523, cat. nos. Z.158 and Z.159
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jan de Bray / Dutch, c. 1627-1697
- Date
- 1650
- Medium
- Black and red chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16.4 × 12.8 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
- Accession no.
- 2015.209
Provenance
Jeronimus Tonneman (1688–1750), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Oct. 21, 1754, Kunstboek N, lot 28, to Hendrick De Leth. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726–1798), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 3, 1800, Kunstboek B, lot 24, to Reinier Vinkeles (1741–1816). Bernardus de Bosch (1742–1816); sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 10, 1817, Kunstboek D, lots 9–10, to Jan Hulswit (1766–1822). H. Willink; sold, Amsterdam, Dec. 6, 1819, Kunstboek C, lot 3, to Brondgeest. H. Croockewit; sold, Amsterdam, Dec. 16, 1874, lot 24, to A.G. De Visser; sold, Muller et Cie, The Hague, May 16–18, 1881, lot 50, to Geller for Baron Adalbert von Lanna (1836–1909); sold, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6, 1910, no. 118, to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863–1930), The Hauge [stamp (Lugt 561) verso, lower center in brown]. I.Q. (Johan Quirijn) van Regteren Altena (1899–1980), Amsterdam [stamp (Lugt 4618) verso, lower center, in black]; by descent; sold Christie’s, Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 2014, to Haboldt & Company, Amsterdam; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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