Thomas de Keyser

Amsterdam 1596 - Amsterdam 1667


Portrait of a Young Woman as Flora with a Shepherd playing a flute in a Landscape.

Oil on Panel, 91.8 x 71.7 cm

Signed with the Monogram and dated: TDK. 1637

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

(Probably) Hendrik Houtkamp (c. 1719-1775), Alkmaar;
his sale, Verlaan, Alkmaar, 18 March 1776, lot 119;
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London, circa 1900;
Private collection, England, by 1901, by descent in the family until;
“The Property of a Lady”, Sotheby’s, London, 12 April 1978, lot 16;
“Property from the Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund, Sold by order of the Trustees”, Sotheby’s, London, 7 December 1994, lot 16;
Private collection USA.

Literature

York, York City Art Gallery, 1980-1986, on loan;
Doncaster, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, 1990-1993, on loan.


Exhibition

A.J. Adams, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser (1596/7-1667): A Study of Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, II, pp. 409-410; III and IV, Ph.D. dissertation, 1985, p. 126, no. 70, fig. 70.