Boy with a Wineglass

Artist Hendrick ter Brugghen Dutch, 1588–1629

Date1623

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions26 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (67.3 x 56.5 cm)
Frame: 36 1/2 x 31 3/4 x 3 in. (92.7 x 80.6 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of David Koetser in honor of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.55.5.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Utrecht, Netherlands, 1623. Probably Johan van Sijpseteijn, Utrecht, Netherlands, and his widow, Pitronella van Midelcoop, before September 1693. Sir Henry William Duff-Gordon (1866–1953), Hampton Court, Radnor, England; [Koetser Gallery, New York]; given to NCMA, 1955.
Published ReferencesArt News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 5, illus. 5 and (color) cover.

Agnes Czobor, "An Unknown Work by Hendrick Terbrugghen," Oud Holland 71, part 4 (1956), 229-232 (cat. no. 2, illus. 231).

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 70, illus (b-w).

Benedict Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen (London: Lund Humphries,1958), cat. no. B80, p. 111, illus.: pl. 35b.

Benedict Nicolson, "Terbrugghen's Old Man Writing," Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin, no. 38 (1958), 55.

The Burlington Magazine 101, no. 673 (April 1959), illus. xxv (advertisement of exhibition).

The Burlington Magazine 101, no. 675 (June 1959), illus. lvii (advertisement of exhibition).

H. Gerson, "Book review of Hendrick Terbrugghen by Benedict Nicolson, London, Lund Humphries, 1958," Kunstchronik 12, no. 11 (November 1959), 319.

La Découverte de la Lumière des Primitifs aux Impressionnistes (exhibition catalogue) (Bordeaux: Galerie des Beaux Arts, 1959), cat. no. 133, illus. cover.

Benedict Nicolson, "Second Thoughts about Terbrugghen," Burlington Magazine 102, no. 692 (November 1960), 469.

Eduard Plietzsch, Holländische und Flämische Maler des XVII Jahrh (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1960), 143-44, illus. fig. 246.

Hendrick Terbrugghen in America (exhibition catalogue) (Dayton: Dayton Art Institute, 1965), cat. no. 2, illus.

Wolfgang Stechow, "Terbrugghen in America," Art News 64, no. 6 (October 1965), 61, illus. 50.

"Mostre musei gallerie (Terbrugghen)," sele arte 13, fasc. 77-78 (gennaiogiugno 1966), 107, illus.

Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 23, illus. (b-w).

Wake Forest University, The Student 82, no. 1 (January 1969), illus. (color) cover.

Baroque Art: Era of Elegance (exhibition catalogue) (Denver: The Denver Art Museum, 1971), p. 78, illus. 79.

P[ieter] J[acobus] J[ohannes] van Thiel, "De aanbidding der konigen en ander vroeg werk van Hendrick ter Brugghen," Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 19, no. 3 (December 1971), 101, 111, 137-138, illus. 113.

Benedict Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), 100, 244.

Horizon 24, no. 3 (March 1981), illus. 50.

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), briefly discussed 5-6 and 7.

Albert Blankert and Leonard J. Slatkes, Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht: Hendrick ter Brugghen und seine Zeitgenossen (exhibition catalogue) (Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum; Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 1996), illus. (b-w) 107, fig. 74 (catalogue only, not in show).

Sonderdruck aus Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland. Beitrage eines Symposions im Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum, 1987), 25, illus. 26.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 88.

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

Katrin Seider, Die Kerze: Motivgeschichte und Ikonologie (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1996), no. 154, illus. 456.

Dennis P. Weller, Saints and Sinners, Darkness & Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 213, illus. (b-w).

Mirjam Neumeister, Das Nachtstück mit Kunstlicht in der Niederländischen Malerei und Graphik des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 1999), 206-07, 264-65, illus. (b-w) 209.

Mariët Westermann, "Making a Mark in Rembrandt's Leiden," In Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and Ambition in Leiden 1629-1631, Alan Chong, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2000), 37, illus. (b-w).

Mirjam Neumeister, Das Nachtstück mit Kunstlicht in der niederländischen Malerei und Graphik des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts: ikonographische und koloristische Aspekte (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2003), illus. 209.

Duncan Bull, et al, Rembrandt / Caravaggio (exhibition catalogue) (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers; Amsterdam: The Rijksmuseum, 2006), illus. (b-w) 44, fig. 32 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Leonard J. Slatkes and Wayne Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen: Catalogue Raisonné (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007), cat. no. A48, also mentioned 22, 155, 167, 188, 218, illus. (b-w) 354.

Jochen Sander, Bastian Eclercy, and Gabriel Dette, Caravaggio in Holland: Musik und Genre bie Caravaggio und den Utrechter Caravaggisten (exhibition catalogue) (Frankfurt: Städel Museum, 2009), 50, illus. (color) (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 6, illus. (color) 30, also briefly discussed x.

Anna Tummers, Judith Leyster. De eerste vrouw die meesterschilder werd (exhibition catalogue) (Haarlem: Frans Hals Museum, 2009), illus. (color) 11 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Christopher Wright, ed., The Schorr Collection: Catalogue of Old Master and Nineteenth-Century Paintings, vol. 1 (London: Marylebone and General Fine Art Ltd., 2014), discussed and illus. (b-w) 57, fig. 53.
Exhibition HistoryBordeaux, Galerie des Beaux Arts, "La Découverte de la Lumière des Primitifs aux Impressionnistes," May 19-July 31, 1959, cat. no. 133, illus. cover.

Dayton, OH, Dayton Art Institute, "Hendrick Terbrugghen in America," October 15-November 28, 1965; Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, December 19, 1965-January 30, 1966, cat. no. 2, illus.

Denver, CO, Denver Art Museum, "Baroque Era: Art of Elegance," October 3-November 15, 1971, cat. no 79, illus.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, briefly discussed 5-6 and 7.

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

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Saints and Sinners, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers," September 27- December 13, 1998 (Raleigh venue only), cat. p. 213, illus. (b-w).

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