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Artist Anthonie Palamedesz. Dutch, 1601–1673

Date1632

MediumOil on cradled panel

Dimensions18 1/4 x 27 9/16 in. (46.4 x 70 cm)
Frame: 25 1/4 x 34 3/4 in. (64.1 x 88.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. George Khuner

Object numberG.62.26.1

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ProvenanceCreated Delft, Netherlands, 1632. Oderisio de Sangro (1876–1910), Prince of Fondi, Naples; [Galerie Sangiorgi, Rome, April 22–May 1, 1895, no. 327, as Stevens Palamede]. Willibald Guy Duschnitz (1884–1976), Vienna, before 1938. George Khuner (1886–1952), Beverly Hills, CA; by inheritance to his wife, Marianne Khuner (1890–1984); given to NCMA, 1962. [1]

[1] Donor retained lifetime possession. Painting received at NCMA, 1984.
Published ReferencesLa Chronique des Arts, Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, "Prinicipales Acquisitions des Musees de France en 1984," No. 1394 (March 1985), 33, illus. 186.

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), briefly discussed 8.

Walter Liedtke, Vermeer and the Delft School (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001), 320-21, illus. (color) 321: mentioned 72, 74, 102, 228, 270, 319, 322, 477.

Mirjam Neumeister, Holländische Gemälde im Städel, 1550-1800, Vol. 1 (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2005), mentioned 343.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 34, illus. (color) 158, also mentioned xii.

Wim Cerutti, De schilder en vrijdenker Johannes Torrentius, 1588–1644 (Haarlem: Uitgeverij Loutje, 2014), illus. (color) 229.
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 'Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting," March 18-May 13, 1984; Berlin (West), Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, June 8-August 12, 1984; London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7-November 18, 1984, cat. no. [?].

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, briefly discussed 8.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Face to Face with the Dutch Golden Age," December 20, 1995-May 26, 1996.

New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Vermeer and the Delft School," March 5-May 27, 2001, cat. no. 48, pp. 320-21, illus. (color) 321: mentioned 72, 74, 102, 228, 270, 319, 322, 477.

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