Portrait of a Lady
Framed: 41 × 34 inches (104.14 × 86.36 cm)
- 117
Exhibition of Dutch Art, 1450-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 4- March 9, 1929, no. 156.
Exhibition of Antique Art, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, June 29-September 1, 1929, no. 5.
The Young Rembrandt and His Times, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, February 14-March 23, 1958; The Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, April 11-May 18, 1958, no. 16.
Seventeenth Century Painters of Haarlem, Allentown Art Museum, PA, April 2-June 13, 1965, no. 1.
Rembrandt and his Pupils, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, January 9-February 23, 1969; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto March 15-April 27, 1969, no. 19.
Dowager Countess of Gosford [1];
Purchased at Valuable Pictures by Old Masters of the Italian School, Portraits of the Dutch and English Schools, Sotheby and Co., London, December 7, 1927, lot 49, as by J. Versponck, by Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands and New York, stock nos. G 22 and Ru 1280, 1927-1931 [2];
Purchased from Bachstitz Gallery, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1931.
NOTES:
[1] Possibly Louisa Augusta Beatrice Acheson, Countess of Gosford (1856-1944). Catalogue of Valuable Pictures by Old Masters of the Italian School, Portraits of the Dutch and English Schools (London: Sotheby and Co., December 7, 1927) lists Portrait of a Lady as "The Property of a Lady of Title."
[2] Record of painting in Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, New York, Bachstitz Gallery Records, Box 19, folder 3, copy in NAMA curatorial files.
Catalogue of Valuable Pictures by Old Masters of the Italian School, Portraits of the Dutch and English Schools (London: Sotheby and Co., December 7, 1927), 13, (repro.), as by J. Verspronck.
K. Bauch, “A Newly Discovered Portrait by Backer,” International Studio: A Magazine for Collectors 92 (March 1929): 38-39, 94, (repro.).
Exhibition of Dutch Art, 1450-1900 (London: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1929), 80.
Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Paintings in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art,” in “The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City Special Number,” Art News 32, no. 10 (December 9, 1933): 30.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 25, (repro.).
The Young Rembrandt and his Times (Indianapolis: Hammel & McDermott, 1958), unpaginated, (repro.).
Seventeenth Century Painters of Haarlem (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1965), 9, 11, (repro.).
Rembrandt and his pupils (Toronto: Museum of Ontario, 1969), 70-71, (repro.).
Michael Jaffé,”The Flemish and Dutch Schools,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 508-509, (repro.) [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 40-41, (repro.)].
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. 1 (Landau, 1983), no. 65, pp. 137, 201, 202, 264, 268, (repro.).
P. W. Kallen, Lübecker Museumskataloge, vol. 2, issue 2, Niederländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts (Lübeck, 1984), 22
Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexicon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, vol. 6 (Munich, 1992), 170.
Peter van den Brink and Jaap van der Veen, Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651), exh. cat. (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2008), no. A91, pp. 42, 235-236, (repro.).
