Lot 54: f - ISAAC DE JOUDERVILLE LEIDEN 1612/13 - 1645/48 AMSTERDAM

PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR

A PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN HOLDING A BOOK

A PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN HOLDING A BOOK

measurements note
49.8 by 37.1 cm.

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Sir Delves Broughton, Bart., Doddington Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire;
With Schaeffer Galleries, New York,
By whom (anonymously) sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 26 May 1943, lot 84, for $525, to Crafton Galleries, as by Gerrit Dou, and so certificated by W.R. Valentiner;
Captain Harold Paikin, New York,
By whose Estate sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 23 January 1952, lot 66, for U$500, to Maloof;
Fred Maloof, Oxon Hill Manor, Oxon Hill, Maryland,
His sale, Silver Spring, Maryland, American Estate Auctions, 24, 25 & 26 September 1965, lot 1147 (all the above as by Gerrit Dou);
Acquired by a family member of the present owners from the above.

LITERATURE

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. VI, Landau/Pfalz 1983, p. 3720, cat. no. 2328, reproduced p. 3927.

NOTE

De Jouderville was apprenticed to Rembrandt in Leiden between 1629 and 1631, and is thus one of his earliest known pupils. He was also one of Rembrandt's most faithful followers, since he continued to paint in a style wholly derived from Rembrandt's own when in Leiden in circa 1630, long after (or presumably so given the paucity of dated works) his Master had moved on. Not surprisingly, given that Gerrit Dou was also probably a Rembrandt pupil at the same time, De Jouderville's physiognomies also resemble those found in Dou's early work, as can be seen in the present picture, which was thought by Walther R. Valentiner to be by Dou. Professor Dr Werner Sumowski considers this to be an early work, painted while De Jouderville was still in Rembrandt's studio, circa 1630-31. He compares it with other early pictures, such as A young man with a coloured scarf, in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (see Literature, vol. II, p. 1439, cat. no. 940, reproduced) or A laughing man with a golden chain, in Museum Bredius, The Hague (ibid., p. 1440, cat. no. 941, reproduced).