The Gold Weigher

Artist Willem de Poorter Dutch, 1608–after 1648

Datecirca 1635–1640

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions20 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. (52.1 x 40 cm)
Frame: 29 x 25 x 4 in. (73.7 x 63.5 x 10.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.54

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Haarlem, Netherlands, ca. 1635. Collection Howarth, mid-19th century, as Rembrandt. [E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by 1950]; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesLife in Seventeenth Century Holland (exhibition catalogue) (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1950), cat. no. 54.

Seventeenth Century Dutch Masters (exhibition catalogue) (Wilmington, DE: Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, 1951), cat. no. 28.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 64 (as A Woman Weighing Gold), illus. (b-w).

W. R. Valentiner, Rembrandt and His Pupils: A Loan Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), cat. no. 77 (in Pupils section), illus. (b-w).

Kurt Bauch, Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1960), no. 194.

Albert Blankert, Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1632-1675 (Utrecht/Antwerp: Spectrum, 1975), 62-64, illus. 65.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1979), illus. 168.

J. Bruyn, B. Haak, S.H. Levie, P.J.J. van Thiel, E. van de Wetering, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Vol. I, 1625-1631 (Amsterdam: Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, 1982), illus. fig. 8.

Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Vol. 4, Ch. Paudiss-Anonyme (Landau/Pfaltz: Pfälzische Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, 1983), illus. fig. no. 1646. (Related: 2385-2389, illus. 2461).

Gilles Aillaud, Albert Blankert, John Michael Montias, Vermeer (Paris: Hazan, 1986), illus. 116.

Homan Potterton, Dutch Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1986), 113.

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), discussed 7, illus. (b-w) 7, fig. 5.

Marina Senenko, Collection of Dutch Paintings: XVII-XIX Centuries (Moscow: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 2009), mentioned 306 (as An Old Woman Weighing Gold).

Chuck Twardy, "Dutch Gold Sees the Light Again." Raleigh: The News and Observer (February 9, 1996, "What's Up" insert), 21.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 36, illus. (color) 167.
Exhibition HistoryHartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, "Life in Seventeenth Century Holland," November 21, 1950-January 14, 1951, cat. no. 54.

Wilmington, DE, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, "Seventeenth Century Dutch Masters," May 6-June 17, 1951, cat. no. 28.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Rembrandt and His Pupils: A Loan Exhibition," November 16-December 30, 1956, cat. no. 77 (in Pupils section), illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, discussed 7, illus. (b-w) 7, fig. 5.

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