Govaert Flinck
Title A 'Tronie' of a Young Woman in an Eastern Costume Drawing a Curtain to One Side, in a Painted Oval
Description: oil on panel
27 1/8 by 24 5/8 in.; 68.8 by 54.3 cm.
Medium: oil on panel
Size: Height 27.1 in.; Width 24.6 in. / Height 68.9 cm.; Width 62.6 cm.
Provenance:
Noble collection, Mecklenburg;
With H. Hartig, Berlin, 1935;
With G. Cramer, Berlin, 1935;
With K. Erasmus, Aerdenhout, 1936;
With D. Katz, Dieren, 1937;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 31 May 1949, lot 54;
Lawrence Golding, New York, 1969;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a European Princely House"), Amsterdam, Christie's, 6 May 2009, lot 50 (as Attributed to Flinck);
There purchased by the present owner.
Literature: J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck 1615-1660, Amsterdam 1965, p. 136, no. 343b; W. Sumowski, Gemälde der RembrandtSchüler, Landau 1983, II, p. 1034, no. 674.