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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.487
People
Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam, Dutch (Swammerdam, Holland 1620 - 1668 Leiden)
Title
A Lady with a Lute Player Beside Her
Other Titles
Former Title: A Lady with a Lute Player
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1662
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/320990

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
40 x 29.7 cm (15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.)
Frame: 57.5 x 47 cm (22 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right: Q. B. 1662
  • label: verso, left center: 25
  • label: verso: JUH 5
  • label: verso: 175/341
  • inscription: verso, frame: [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collection, England, sold [through Simon Waters, London]; to [Johnny van Haeften, London, October 1985] sold; to Peter and Anne Brooke, Boston, May 1986, by descent; to Samuel R. Brooke, Peter W. Brooke and John F. Brooke, 2020, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel R. Brooke, Peter W. Brooke and John F. Brooke in memory of Peter A. Brooke and Anne F. Brooke
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.487
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Angelika Lasius, "Quiringh Gerritsz. Van Brekelenkam" (1987), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Peter C. Sutton, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, 1992), pp. 52, 128, repr. p. 52, cat. no. 14
  • Angelika Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Davaco Publishers (Doornspijk, The Netherlands, 1992), p. 156, no. B42
  • Adriaan E. Waiboer, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, exh. cat., National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of Art, Musée du Louvre, and Yale University Press (Dublin, 2017), p. 87, repr. as fig. 88

Exhibition History

  • Prized Posessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 06/17/1992 - 08/16/1992

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