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Dutch School, 18th century, after Gerard Dou

A girl with a pot of pinks at a window

Lot Closed

April 10, 11:29 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dutch School, 18th century, after Gerard Dou

A girl with a pot of pinks at a window


oil on oak panel

unframed: 35 x 25 cm.; 13¾ x 9⅞ in.

framed: 61 x 51 cm.; 24 x 20⅛ in.

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Walter Allfrey (1895–1964), Bristol (according to an inscription on a label on the reverse);

With Frost & Reed, London, by 6 June 1955, no. R4409;

Anonymous sale, Cheffins, Cambridge, 18 November 2004, lot 743;

Anonymous sale, Düsseldorf, Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen, 7 September 2023, lot 3825;

Where acquired by the present owner.

This painting is after a known composition by Gerard Dou, dated 1656 and owned by Lord Ashburton before it was destroyed by fire in 1873 at Bath House, London. 1


1 G. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1908, vol. I, p. 403, no. 170.