The Violin Player
Gerard Dou (1613-1675)

- Material/technique
- oil on oak panel
- Measurements
- 31.7 × 20.3 cm
- Acquisition
- acquired 1998 by Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein
- Artists/makers/authors
- Gerard Dou
- Inventory number
- GE 150
- Signature/inscriptions content only available in German
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Sign. und dat. unten Mitte: GDOV (GD ligiert) 165(3)
Siegel: rückseitig Reste eines roten Siegels
- Provenance
- before 1723 collection Philippe Duc d'Orléans; 9.6.1729 auction "feu S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans" Paris, lot 27; before 1798 Louis Philippe Joseph Duc d'Orléans; 1798 auction of the collection in Paris; 1792 collection Thomas Moore Slade, London; 1793 probably auction of the collection Moore Slade at Pall Mall, London; 1793 collection John Davenport, London; 21. 2. 1801 Davenport collection auctioned at Christie's, London, lot 90; before 1803 Richard Walker collection, Liverpool; 5. 3. 1803 collection auctioned at Christie's, London, lot 6, acquired by Birch; 21./22. 3. 1815 auction Phillips, London, lot 173; possibly auction Phillips, London, 2./3. 6. 1815, lot 46; before 1837 collection Charles Duc de Berry, Paris; 5. 4. 1837 auction Berry collection, Palais d'Elysées, Paris, lot 59; before 1846 collection Héris, Brussels; auction of the same on 19. 6. 1846 in Brussels; collection Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris; Alex Wengraf, London; 1980 Joseph Ritmann, Amsterdam; Nordmann Gallerie, Maastricht and London; private collection, Maastricht; acquired 1998 by Galerie Nissl, Eschen
- Place of origin
- Holland