Gerrit Dou

Dou, Gerard

Dutch, 1613 - 1675

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A pale-skinned, balding man with a fringe of white hair and a long, wispy gray beard kneels with his fingers intertwined in prayer in a shadowy grotto-like space in this vertical painting. He faces our right in profile, and his eyes look up at a crucifix propped against several woven baskets leaning against a moss-covered, gnarled tree. His hands rest on the open pages of a large book at the base of the crucifix. He wears a dark tawny-brown robe with a voluminous hood, and a string of thick rosary beads hanging from his waist ends with a tiny skull and a cross. A brick archway frames him, and another archway is seen through the opening. An unlit lantern hangs from the tree over the crucifix. The book, baskets, and crucifix along with a skull and hourglass sit on a rock covered by a cloth. An overturned pottery jug, a water jug, and a horse’s skull rest among a tall thistle plant and grass at the foot of the rock, in the lower right corner of the panel.
Gerrit Dou, The Hermit, 1670, oil on oak panel, Timken Collection, 1960.6.8

The Hermit

Gerrit Dou · 1670 · oil on oak panel ·  Accession ID  1960.6.8

Shown from the chest up, a light-skinned man with a wrinkled face and a silvery gray beard and hair gazes into the distance in this oval portrait painting. His chest is angled to our right but he turns his head to look off over his other shoulder, to our left. His slate-blue eyes are a little sunken and lined with wrinkles. Shading marks the hollows of the temple and cheek we can see. His thin lips are closed and framed by his curly mustache and beard. A dark, mahogany-brown cap is pushed back on his head, and his brown jacket has gold-colored buttons down the front. The collar of a cream-colored shirt shows through at the neckline. The background is dark olive green. The artist signed the work near the man’s shoulder, to our right: “GDOV.”
Gerrit Dou, Bust of a Bearded Man, c. 1642/1645, oil on panel, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.32

Bust of a Bearded Man

Gerrit Dou · c. 1642/1645 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2014.136.32

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Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du cabinet de Monsieur le duc De Choiseul

Pierre-François Basan, Various Artists, Pierre-Charles Baquoy, Louis Binet, Robert Daudet, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Balthasar Anton Dunker, Louis Germain, Carl Guttenberg, Louis-Michel Halbou, Francois-Robert Ingouf, Nicolas Delaunay, Jacques Philippe LeBas, Pierre Charles Levesque, Jean Baptiste Liénard, Charles Louis Lingée, Joseph-C. Maillet, Pierre Maleuvre, Pietro Antonio Martini, Louis-Joseph Masquelier, Jean Massard, Philippe Louis Parizeau, Charles Emmanuel Patas, Nicolas Ponce, Noël Pruneau, Antoine Louis Romanet, Jean Francois Rousseau, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Vény, Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod, B. A. Wieilh, Pierre-Philippe Choffard, Charles Emmanuel Patas, Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Jeanne Deny, Philippe Louis Parizeau · 1771 · bound volume with engraved table of contents and 124 etching and engravings on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.16.1

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red-brown ink on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7013

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red-brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7013

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7008

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7008

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed in black ink on wove paper (proof), Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7007

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed in black ink on wove paper (proof) ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7007

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7012

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7012

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette and burnishing printed in red ink on wove paper (proof), Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7010

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette and burnishing printed in red ink on wove paper (proof) ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7010

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed in red ink on wove paper (proof), Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7009

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed in red ink on wove paper (proof) ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7009

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red-orange ink on laid paper, Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr., 1977.67.12

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red-orange ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1977.67.12

Bibliography

1641

  • Orlers, Jan Jansz. Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden. 2nd. ed. Leiden, 1641: 377, 380.

1706

  • Piles, Roger de. The Art of Painting and the Lives of the Painters. London, 1706. (Translated from Abrégé de la vie des peintres.... Paris, 1699. 2nd ed., Paris, 1715.)

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 2:1-3.

1829

  • Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 9 vols. London, 1829-1842: 1(1829):1-47.

1902

  • Martin, Willem. Gerard Dou. Translated by Clara Bell. London, 1902.

1907

  • Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 8 vols. Translated by Edward G. Hawke. London, 1907-1927: 1(1907):337-470.

1911

  • Martin, Willem. Gérard Dou, sa vie et son oeuvre: Etude sur la peinture hollandaise et les marchands au dix-septième siècle. Paris, 1911.

1913

  • Martin, Willem. Gerard Dou: des Meisters Gemälde in 247 Abbildungen. Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, 24. Stuttgart and Berlin, 1913.

1980

  • Artemis Group. Ten Paintings by Gerard Dou, 1613-1675. Exh. cat. David Carrit Limited, London, 1980.

1983

  • Sumowski, Werner. Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler. 6 vols. Landau, 1983: 1:498-607; 5:3088-3089; 6:3701-3703.

1984

  • Sutton, Peter C. Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. Edited by Jane Iandola Watkins. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Royal Academy of Arts, London. Philadelphia, 1984: 181-188.

1988

  • Sluijter, Eric J., Marlies Enklaar, and Paul Nieuwenhuizen. Leidse Fijnschilders: van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge 1630-1760. Exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden. Zwolle, 1988: 96-115.

1989

  • Hecht, Pieter. De Hollandse fijn schilders: Van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff. Exh. cat. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Maarssen, and The Hague, 1989: 23-64.

1991

  • MacLaren, Neil. The Dutch School, 1600-1900. Revised and expanded by Christopher Brown. 2 vols. National Gallery Catalogues. London, 1991: 1:105.

1995

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 56-57.

2000

  • Baer, Ronni, et al. Gerrit Dou, 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt. Edited by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dulwich Picture Gallery; Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. New Haven, 2000.