Dutch School, 18th century, after Gerard Dou A girl with...

Dutch School, 18th century, after Gerard Dou
A girl with a pot of pinks at a window

oil on oak panel
unframed: 35 x 25 cm.; 13¾ x 9⅞ in.
framed: 61 x 51 cm.; 24 x 20⅛ in.

Condition Report:
The panel is flat and even, providing a stable support to the paint surface. There is minor frame rubbing to some of the extremities of the panel. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a layer of opaque varnish and some small spots of retouching to the extremities and a few small spots in the background (within the open window).

Catalogue Note:
This painting is after a known composition by Gerard Dou, dated 1656 and owned by Lord Ashburton before it was destroyed by fire in 1873 at Bath House, London. 1

1 G. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1908, vol. I, p. 403, no. 170.

Provenance:
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Walter Allfrey (1895–1964), Bristol (according to an inscription on a label on the reverse);

With Frost & Reed, London, by 6 June 1955, no. R4409;

Anonymous sale, Cheffins, Cambridge, 18 November 2004, lot 743;

Anonymous sale, Düsseldorf, Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen, 7 September 2023, lot 3825;

Where acquired by the present owner.