About the Artwork
Head of a Girl
between 1655 and 1665
Adriaen van Ostade
1610-1685
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Overall: 3 3/16 × 2 15/16 inches (8.1 × 7.5 cm) Framed: 8 1/2 × 7 7/8 × 1 1/4 inches (21.6 × 20 × 3.2 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
35.114
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower left: AV.O
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Provenance
1935, (Charles Albert de Burlet, Basel, Switzerland)
1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Newberry, J. S., Jr. "Adriaen van Ostade's Portrait of a Girl," Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 6 (1936): pp. 90-91, (repr.).
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 98, no. 665.
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 154-155 [entry by S. Donahue Kuretsky].
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Adriaen van Ostade, Head of a Girl, between 1655 and 1665, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 35.114.
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