Children with a Cat

1631

Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	Panel: 12 7/8 × 11 in. (32.7 × 27.9 cm)
Object Number	1955.756
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Dirck Hals, Children with a Cat, 1631, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.756

Select Bibliography

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Provenance

Hendrik II Fagel (1706-90), Holland; Hendrik III, Baron Fagel (1765-1838), England, his grandson, by descent (1790-1801, his sale, Coxe, Burrell & Foster, England, 22-23 May 1801, no. 33); Rev. Philip Duval, Vikar of Twicken, Canon of Windsor (1801-1808, his sale, Christie's, 14 May 1808, no. 17); [William Seguier acting on behalf of Taylor]; George Watson Taylor (1808-1823, his sale, Christie's 13 June 1823, no. 34); Baron Stockmar (13 June 1823, acting on behalf of Prince (later King) Leopold of Belgium); King Leopold of Belgium (1823-1909); [Kleinberger & Co., Paris, by purchase, by 1909]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York; [Knoedler & Co., New York, 1943, sold to Clark, 4 May 1944]; Robert Sterling and Francine Clark (1944-55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.