id: 148369 accession number: 1975.81 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.81 updated: 2019-11-18 11:28:36.054000 Portrait of Elizabeth Spiegel, 1639. Dirck Dircksz. Santvoort (Dutch, 1610/11-1680). Oil on wood; framed: 80.6 x 68.3 x 3.9 cm (31 3/4 x 26 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 62.7 x 49.5 cm (24 11/16 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1975.81 title: Portrait of Elizabeth Spiegel title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1639 creation date earliest: 1639 creation date latest: 1639 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, 17th century technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Dirck Dircksz. Santvoort (Dutch, 1610/11-1680) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 80.6 x 68.3 x 3.9 cm (31 3/4 x 26 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 62.7 x 49.5 cm (24 11/16 x 19 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed on back: "Elisabet Spiegel" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1973: "Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century," no catalogue.
CMA, February 1976: "Year in Review," cat., Bulletin, LXIII (February 1976), p.67, no. 62.
CMA, November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984: "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual," no cat. --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1975- footnotes: citations: Noah L. [1918-1980] and Muriel S. Butkin [1915-1998], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: c. 1972-1975 footnotes: citations: (Art dealer, United States, probably sold to Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin) 1 date: 1972 footnotes: * 1 Christie's could not disclose the identity of the dealer who purchased the Santvoort at the 1972 sale. Given the brief length of time between the auction and the Butkins' donation of the painting to CMA in 1975, it is likely that this dealer sold the painting to the Butkins shortly after his or her purchase of the painting at Sotheby Parke Bernet - a more likely scenario than the Butkins' purchasing the painting at the auction through this unnamed dealer, as Christie's records show that the Butkins were not the buyers. citations: * Christina Eberli, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 10, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: (Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Nov. 3, 1972, no. 38, sold to an American art dealer) date: 1972 footnotes: citations: * Sotheby's (Firm). Old Master Paintings and Drawings. Nov. 3, 1972. page number: url: * Christina Eberli, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 10, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Estate of private collector, consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet date: Until 1972 footnotes: citations: * Sotheby's (Firm). Old Master Paintings and Drawings. Nov. 3, 1972. page number: url: * Christina Eberli, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 10, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Private collection date: After 1916-by 1972 footnotes: citations: * Christina Eberli, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 10, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, probably sold to a private collector) 1 date: After 1916 footnotes: * 1 While it is likely that Knoedler sold the Santvoort to a private collector, it is not known if the buyer was the same private collector from whose estate Sotheby Parke Bernet sold the painting in 1972. citations: * Christina Eberli, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 10, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: J.T. or J.F. Drake 1 date: 1916- footnotes: * 1The buyer written in the annotated copy of the Anderson Galleries catalogue appears to read “J.F. Drake,” but the handwriting is not easily legible. The published auction results in American Art News say that “J.T. Drake” paid $430 for the Santvoort, while those same auction results note that James F. Drake purchased a first edition in a books sale, and indeed, James F. Drake was a New York auction house specializing in books and manuscripts. Lugt’s Répertoire lists no J. Drakes. citations: * Anderson Galleries, Inc. Paintings by American and European Artists. April 3-5, 1916. page number: url: * American Art News 14, no. 27 (April 8, 1916): 8. page number: url: (Sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 3-5, 1916, no. 152, illus. p. 42, sold to J.T. or J.F. Drake) 1 date: 1916 footnotes: * 1 William Macbeth writes in his preface to the sale catalogue that because the increasing interest in American art took up much of his time, he kept postponing any exhibitions of his Old Masters collection, having finally decided to store them no longer and put them up for auction. citations: * Anderson Galleries, Inc. Paintings by American and European Artists. April 3-5, 1916. page number: url: William Macbeth, New York, consigned to the Anderson Galleries 1 date: 1895-1916 footnotes: * 1William Macbeth’s preface to the 1916 Anderson Galleries sale says, “The pictures consisting of the Old Masters which are here catalogued as my property are part of a collection purchased by me in Holland in 1895. The forming of the collection was the life work of a well-known resident of The Hague, M. Muijser. In his old age he decided to part with his pictures, but could not be induced to separate them,--hence the inclusion of some of minor importance." citations: * Anderson Galleries, Inc. Paintings by American and European Artists. April 3-5, 1916. page number: url: * Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk, 1892-1953, Series 3: Inventory Records, 1892-ca. 1957, Stock Book, 1894-1903, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution [Box 113]. page number: url: J.L. Muyser or possibly another private collector, Holland 1 date: 1883-1895 footnotes: * 1The purchaser of this painting is not listed in the sale catalogue, and because William Macbeth indicates that he purchased a collection in Holland in 1895 that was formed by “M. Muijser,” it is possible that the painting failed to sell at the auction and Muyser remained in possession of it until Macbeth bought it from him twelve years later. Unlike most of the Macbeth Gallery stock books, which are held by the Archives of American Art, the volume covering the years 1984-1903 contains a record of the paintings personally owned by William Macbeth, and the Santvoort and numerous other Old Master paintings are listed under “Collection bought of M. Muisjer, The Hague, Holland, August 1895.” citations: * Anderson Galleries, Inc. Paintings by American and European Artists. 1916. page number: url: * Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk, 1892-1953, Series 3: Inventory Records, 1892-ca. 1957, Stock Book, 1894-1903, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution [Box 113]. page number: url: (Royer-Kerst and Muyser sale, Nahuys-Hodgson, Amsterdam, Nov. 14, 1883, no. 142, MS addition to sales catalogue by Victor Stuers) date: 1883 footnotes: citations: * Frederik Muller & Cie. Tableaux anciens et modernes; aquarelles; sculptures. Nov. 14, 1883. page number: url: M. Muyser, The Hague 1 date: Until 1883 footnotes: * 1M. Muyser (sometimes spelled “Muijser”) could be J.L. Muyser, who is referred to in Hofstede de Groot’s A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeeth Century as owning or previously owning several other paintings. There is also a J.L. Muyser, likely the same person, who was a prolific collector of the work of Josef Israels. A sale catalogue of his Israels collection is dated May 3, 1904, but provides neither his full name nor any additional information. One candidate is a J.L. Muyser listed in the “Nederlandsche Residentie- en ‘Sgravenhaagsche Stads-Almanak” from 1864: Volume 19, page 170 lists J.L. Muyser as one of two cashiers/controllers of the royal household (“controleur en kassier der hofhouding”). citations: * Anderson Galleries, Inc. Paintings by American and European Artists. 1916. page number: url: --- fun fact: Amsterdam was a very important trade center when this portrait was painted in the mid-1600s. In this portrait, the girl wears an African ostrich feather in her hair and her skin appears to glow. Look closely at the way her small hands were treated and the naturalistic way they grip the musical instrument. digital description: wall description: This painting belongs to a series of portraits representing the five senses and each depicting a daughter of a wealthy family from Amsterdam. This portrait of 11-year-old Elizabeth Spiegel, who holds a recorder in her hands, represents the sense of hearing. Her gown of costly satin and pearl ornaments proclaims her family's prosperity, and the imported ostrich feathers from Africa indicate Amsterdam's role as an international trade center. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 272; Mentioned; p. 271-273 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.81/1975.81_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.81/1975.81_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.81/1975.81_full.tif