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Portrait of a Woman, probably Aeltje Dircksdr. Pater
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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Portrait of a Woman, probably Aeltje Dircksdr. Pater

1638
Frans Hals (Dutch, c. 1581–1666) visual detail
ArtistFrans Hals (Dutch, c. 1581–1666)
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Provenance

Public
Until 1851

Private collection, Amsterdam

1851

(Jeronimo de Vries/Johannes Albertus Brondgeest, Amsterdam, sale, September 15, 1851, no. 198, fl. 4...

by 1873-1874

Baron Anselm Mayer von Rothschild (1803–1874), Vienna (inv. AR705), by descent to his son, Baron Alb...

Probably 1874-1911

Baron Albert von Rothschild (1844-1911), Vienna, by descent to his son, Alphonse von Rothschild

Probably 1911-1938

Baron Alphonse von Rothschild (1878-1942), until confiscated by the Nazis in March 1938.

1938-1945

In the possession of the Nazis. Apparently intended for the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, but ke...

1945-1947

In possession of the Allies. Restituted to Alphose von Rothschild's widow, Baroness Clarice de Roths...

Source provenance text

Private collection, Amsterdam (Jeronimo de Vries/Johannes Albertus Brondgeest, Amsterdam, sale, September 15, 1851, no. 198, fl. 40 [with pendant], to Brondgeest [bought in]) Baron Anselm Mayer von Rothschild (1803–1874), Vienna (inv. AR705), by descent to his son, Baron Albert von Rothschild Baron Albert von Rothschild (1844-1911), Vienna, by descent to his son, Alphonse von Rothschild Baron Alphonse von Rothschild (1878-1942), until confiscated by the Nazis in March 1938. In the possession of the Nazis. Apparently intended for the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, but kept at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck. By 1945 stored in the salt mines at Alt Aussee. In possession of the Allies. Restituted to Alphose von Rothschild's widow, Baroness Clarice de Rothschild. Baroness Clarice de Rothschild (1894-1967); sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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Exhibitions

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Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955). Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). Ausstellung alter Gemalde aus Wiener Privatbesitz. Vienna, Oesterrreichisches museum für Kunst und industrie (August - September 1873), cat. no. 124.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Portraits by Hals often feature bold, jagged brushstrokes. This portrait shows him experimenting with the “wet-into-wet,” technique, in which layers of paint were added in succession without being allowed to dry in between. Note the blended strokes used at the woman’s hairline to suggest individual strands of hair. The sitter has been tentatively identified as Aeltje Dircksdr. Pater (1597–1678), wife of the Haarlem brewer and burgomaster (mayor) Jan de Wael (1594–1663). An inscription states she was 41 when Hals painted her.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 10 structured provenance events · 4 structured exhibitions.

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