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A Young Woman

A Young Woman

1640
(Dutch, 1613–1675)
Netherlands
oil on wood
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.)
Bequest of William G. Mather 1951.325
Location: not on view

Description

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.
  • Comte d’Oultremont, Brussels, 1842
    [Henry Reinhardt, New York]
    William G. Mather, Cleveland, 1912.
    Bequest of William G. Mather, 1951.
  • Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. Pt. 9. Supplement. London: Smith and Son, 1829. Mentioned: p. 21, no. 67
    Martin, Wilhelm. Het Leven en de Werken van Gerrit Dou. Leiden, 1901. Mentioned: no. 199
    Martin, W., and Clara Bell. Gerard Dou. London, UK: G. Bell and Sons, 1902. Reproduced: p. 106, no. 19
    Hofstede de Groot, C. Beschreibendes und kritisches verzeichnis der werke des hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts; nach dem muster. Esslingen a. N.: P. Neff, 1907. Reproduced: p. 456, no. 362; vol. 1
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 229; Mentioned: p. 229-230
    Francis, Henry S. "Bequest of William G. Mather, Paintings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXVIII, no. 8 (October, 1951) 197-198.
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” September 26, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College 1956. Reproduced: vol. 2, p. 162, no. 7
  • Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
    Exposition Nèerlandaise de Beaux-Arts. Brussels, Belgium (1882).
    Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 18-June 8, 1959).
    Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).
  • {{cite web|title=A Young Woman|url=false|author=Gerrit Dou|year=1640|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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