Portrait of Gerard Dou, 17th century

  • Godfried Schalcken, Dutch, 1643-1706

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6 1/8 × 4 7/8 inches (15.6 × 12.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1080

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Stamped, verso: Scripps 1892 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, upper left: GDOV Inscribed, upper right: Pictor Inscribed, lower left: Batav.; lower right: Lugd. Inscribed, lower center: Honoris ergo | Praeceptorem suum delineavit | G. Schlacken

June 1892, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Godfried Schalcken, Portrait of Gerard Dou, 17th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1080.