Before Treatment photograph taken at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center prior to 2015 cleaning.

During Treatment photograph taken at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center prior to 2015 cleaning.

Gerrit Dou

Dutch, 1613–1675

Girl at a Window

c.1655

Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	10 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (26.9 × 19 cm) Frame: 15 1/8 × 12 3/16 × 1 7/8 in. (38.4 × 31 × 4.8 cm)
Object Number	1955.716
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Gerrit Dou, Girl at a Window, c.1655, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.716

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and The Netherlands-America Amity Trust, 1986. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Ronni Baer. "The Life and Art of Gerrit Dou," in Gerrit Dou 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt (exh. cat.: National Gallery, Spril 16-Aug. 6, 2000; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Sept. 6-Nov. 19, 2000; Royal Cabinet of paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague, Dec. 9, 2000-Feb. 25, 2001). New Haven: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2000. Arti et Amicitiae. Exhibition of rare and important paintings of old masters: the Art of Social Halls. Amsterdam: Bij de Erven H. van Munster & zoon, 1872. Catalogus der tentoonstelling van schilderijen van oude meesters. Hague: Pulchri Studio, 1890. Sedelmeyer, Charles. Illustrated catalogue of 300 paintings by old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English schools. Paris: [Printed for Ch. Sedelmeyer by Lahure], 1898. Baer, Ronni. “The paintings of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675).” 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1990. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958. A Collection of Paintings Owned by George C. Thomas, Philadelphia. Privately Printed, 1907. Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, based on the work of John Smith. Catalogue raisonné. 8 vols. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1907–27. De Groot, Corn. Hofstede. “Veiling Messchert van Vollenhoven.” De Nederlandsche Spectator, 1892. Gerard Hoet. Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen. 's Gravenhage: Pieter Gerard van Baalen, 1752.

Provenance

Possibly Cornelis Wittert van Valkenburg (his sale, Rotterdam, 11 April 1731, no. 26); (sale, Amsterdam, 9 April 1734, no. 5); Robert de Neuville, Leiden (his sale, Leiden, 15 March 1736, no. 1); L. B. Coclers, Amsterdam (his sale, Amsterdam, 7 August 1811;) J. Goll van Frankenstein, Amsterdam (by 1833); J.F. van Lennep, Amsterdam (by 1872, until at least 1890); Messchert van Vollenhoven, Amsterdam (his sale, Amsterdam, 29 March 1892, no. 2, sold to Wertheimer); [Asher Wertheimer, London, 1892-1893, sold to Thomas, May 1893]*; George C. Thomas, Philadelphia; George C. Thomas, Jr., New York, his son, by descent (1909-1919); [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark in 1922]; Robert Sterling Clark, purchased 1 June 1922; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. *provenance relating to second version or replica of Clark painting: [Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris; sold to Wassermann]; Max Wassermann, Paris (by 1898, d. 1932), until at least 1913.