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About the Artwork
This painting may depict a specific person as in a traditional portrait. The less formal costume and the tight focus on the head, however, may mean that it is a tronie, a popular category of painting among Dutch painters in the 1600s. While painted from living models, tronies represent more general types of people, designed as beautiful images rather than accurate likenesses of people known to their patrons.
Inscriptions
Signed left center: "GDov."; "[GD in monogram]"
Provenance
Comte d’Oultremont, Brussels, 1842 [Henry Reinhardt, New York] William G. Mather, Cleveland, 1912. Bequest of William G. Mather, 1951.
Exhibition history
Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955). Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 18-June 8, 1959). Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613–1675)
- Date
- 1640
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 35 x 31 x 5 cm (13 3/4 x 12 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 16.3 x 12.1 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of William G. Mather
- Accession no.
- 1951.325
More by Gerard Dou in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009909
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