id: 148959 accession number: 1977.117 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.117 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:07.319000 Portrait of a Woman, 1646. Govaert Flinck (Dutch, 1615–1660). Oil on wood; framed: 101 x 90 x 5.5 cm (39 3/4 x 35 7/16 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 71.5 x 59.5 cm (28 1/8 x 23 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1977.117 title: Portrait of a Woman title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1646 creation date earliest: 1646 creation date latest: 1646 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 * Govaert Flinck (Dutch, 1615–1660) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 101 x 90 x 5.5 cm (39 3/4 x 35 7/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 71.5 x 59.5 cm (28 1/8 x 23 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed left: "G. Flinck 1646" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1977 opening date: 1977-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exposition des Grands et Petits Maîtres Hollandis du XVII e Siècle, Galerie du jeu de Paume, Paris, France (1911). * Lustrumtentoonstelling uit hed kunstbezit van Reünisten van het Utrechtsch Sudenten Corps, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, (1956). * Collection of Victor de Stuers: Long-term Loan to the Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum, Utrecht, The Netherlands. --- PROVENANCE Private Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: "Tableaux Anciens", C.F. Roos, Amsterdam, March 14-15, 1882, lot 27.) date: March 14, 1882 footnotes: citations: Dirksen (?). date: footnotes: citations: Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, November 6-9, 1900, lot 35) date: November 6-9, 1900 footnotes: citations: M. le Chevalier de Stuers date: In 1911 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, December 11, 1923, lot 473). date: December 11, 1923 footnotes: citations: Hoschek, Prague, Czech Republic. date: footnotes: citations: Farrar date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: Sotheby’s, London, July 8, 1925, lot 42). date: July 8, 1925 footnotes: citations: Rothstien date: footnotes: citations: Kenyon-Slaney date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: Sotheby’s, London, December 10, 1925, lot 44). date: December 10, 1925 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1926). date: 1926 footnotes: citations: Victor de Stuers, Utrecht, The Netherlands date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Cornelis Johannes Karel van Aalst (1866-1939), Hoevelaken, The Netherlands, upon his death, by inheritance to his heirs. date: -1939 footnotes: citations: Heirs of C. J. K. van Aalst date: 1939- footnotes: citations: Cramer, The Hague, The Netherlands. date: footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Shaker Heights, Ohio, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977. date: -1977 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1977- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: Because of an inscription on the back, this painting was long considered a portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, a prominent Dutch scholar and artist. These words, however, were added much later and incorrectly state that Anna Maria was 42 years old, when in reality she would have been 39. Furthermore, Flinck's likeness does not resemble other known portraits of this famous woman. Although her identity remains unknown, his sitter has an austere dignity and emotional complexity that captures her individuality through the careful description of her expression and dress. Due to this naturalism and elegant formality, Flinck achieved wealth and a high social standing throughout the 1640s as one of Amsterdam's most popular portraitists, rivaling his former master, Rembrandt. Joachim Sandrart, a contemporary German painter, once commented that compared to Rembrandt's portraits, Flinck's "were more felicitous in the exactness and in the pleasing quality of the portrayal." wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Roos, Cornelis François. Tableaux anciens. March 14-15, 1882. page number: no. 27 url: Christie, Manson & Woods. Ancient and Modern Pictures and Water-Colour Drawings. 1899. page number: Lot 146, p. 23 url: Frederik Muller & Cie. Tableaux Anciens. November 6-9, 1900. page number: no. 35 url: Moes, Ernst W. Iconographia batava 2, 2. Amsterdam: Frederik Muller, 1905. page number: p. 392, no. 7069/9 url: Exposition des grands et petits maítres hollandais du XVIIe siècle 1911 (PARIS). Exposition des grands et petits maîtres hollandais du XVIIe siècle organisée ... par la revu "L'Art et les Artistes" ... 28 avril au 10 juillet, 1911. 1911. page number: cat. no. 34 url: C. Hofstede de Groot in Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker Algemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kinstler, Leipzig, XII (1916). page number: p. 98 url: Frederik Muller & Cie. Tableaux anciens. 1923. page number: no. 473, p. 3 url: Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Collection of Objects of Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. [London]: [Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.], 1925. page number: no. 42, p. 8 url: Sotheby's (Firm). Important Pictures by Old Masters. 1925. page number: no. 44, p. 13 url: Moltke, Joachim Wolfgang, Graf von, and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Dutch and Flemish Old Masters in the Collection of Dr. C.J.K. Van Aalst, Huis-Te-Hoevelaken, Holland. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1939. page number: p. 138, Fig. XXXII url: Utrechtsch Studenten Corps. Lustrumtentoonstelling uit het kunstbezit van reünisten van het Utrechts Studenten Corps: van 22 juni t/m 11 juli 1956, te houden in het Centraal Museum te Utrecht : catalogus. 1956. page number: cat. no. 6 url: Moltke, Joachim Wolfgang. Govaert Flinck, 1615-1660. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1965. page number: p. 139, no. 344 url: "Advertisement", Simiolus Jaargang 1 no. 2 (1966-67). page number: url: 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. 235; Mentioned: p. 234-236 url: Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1977.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 1 (1978). page number: cat. no. 37, repr. p. 13 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159560 Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986. page number: pp. 66, 336 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.117/1977.117_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.117/1977.117_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.117/1977.117_full.tif