Girl with Blue Bow
Artist
Henricus Antonius (Han) van Meegeren
Dutch, 1889 - 1947
ArtistStyle of
Jan Vermeer
Dutch, 1632 - 1675
Dateca. 1924
Place of OriginNetherlands
MediumGelatin-glue medium and pigment over an obscured 17th-century painting fragment
DimensionsStretcher: 12 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (32.7 x 25.1 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 21 x 18 in. (53.3 x 45.7 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 21 x 18 in. (53.3 x 45.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineThe Hyde Collection Trust, 1952
Object number1971.56
On View
Not on viewCollections
- European Paintings & Sculpture
InscribedLabels on the back of frame:
--Left side, middle; older paper label, some silverfish damage, perforated along one edge like a stamp, preprinted in black with number "626" (possibly associated with the sale of this picture as lot 62 at Christie's, London, March 23. 1934?)
--Top, center: Preprinted Hyde Collection label, inscribed by hand in red ink "STYLE OF JAN VERMEER/GIRL WITH BLUE BOW/ 1971.56"
Two preprinted labels on the Fom-cor that protects the back of the canvas:
--Hyde Collection with typed text "Style of Jan Vermeer/GIRL WITH BLUE BOW/c. 1925/Aqueous medium over old paint on old/canvas/1971.56"
--"Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute/Temporary Registration/Altered States/Conservation, Analysis and the/ Interpretation of Works of Art//Mount Holyoke College Art Museum 4/2 - 5/29/94/Clark Art Institute 7/23- 9/18/94/National Academy of Design 10/5/11/27/94//Clark TR 1994.152.5/ Cat. No. 5//Owner: Hyde Collection//Object: Style of Vermeer, Girl with Blue Bow// Container no. 1"
On the left edge of the aluminum protective frame visible around the back perimeter of the canvas, handwritten in red marking pen on white tape "88-138." This is the Williamstown Art Conservation Center's (WACC) laboratory registration number given on their "Invoice and Worksheet" when it was received for treatment on November 5, 1989 (see object conservation file).
Written in marking pen on the frame itself, UL, "CON CEN/L 63.9.44" and below this in pencil, large "Box 1-1". The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts in NYC assigned the above loan number to the Hyde's painting when it was brought there for examination in September 1963, a receipt for the return of the painting is dated August 1965 (Hyde object file conservation records).
The 1989 examination worksheet from WACC also notes a partially legible "Export stamp" with the city name "Rotterdam" on the stretcher. The stretcher was covered at the time the TMS record was updated in April, 2010.
DescriptionBust-length portrait of a girl. She wears a yellow dress with a large, white lace-worked collar worn over another smaller collar and secured with a blue ribbon tied in a bow. Her hair is worn up and there is a similarly colored blue ribbon or headdress around the right side of her hair. She has pearl drop earrings. Twentieth-century rococo-style gold-colored frame. Plain-mortised (not beveled) structure visible from the rear is oak and has been laminated to the frame body which is very atypical. The whole is unusually heavy and the all of the decoration appears to have been cast as a unit with no applied ornament and none of the usual chisel marks found on the back of the pierced areas of hand-made frames. The gold-color has been aged by rubbing down to a red bole-like surface on the high points and coated with a 'spray' of fine black dots that look like they were shaken and/or flicked from a paint brush in imitation of dust and fly-specks, but completely unnatural.Exhibition HistoryBoijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, July 9 - October 9. 1935
"Five Centuries of Dutch Art," Art Association of Montreal with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, March 9 - April 9, 1944
"The Hyde Collection: A Selection of Fine and Decorative Arts," IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York City, June 20 - August 26, 1989
"Altered States: Conservation, Analysis and the Interpretation of Works of Art," Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, April 2 - May 29, 1994; Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, July 23 - Sept. 18, 1994, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY, Oct. 5 - Nov. 27, 1994.
The Hyde Collection, Rotunda Gallery, May 11 - May 23, 2010.
"Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World". Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts of the Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA, January 21, 2014 - April 27, 2014, The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, May 23, 2014 - August 2, 2014, The Canton Museum, Canton, OH, August 28, 2104 October 25, 2014, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK., January 22, 2015 - April 12, 2015, Reading Public Museum, Reading PA, June 5, 2015 - September 6, 2015
"Masterpieces & Mysteries", Whitney-Renz Gallery, May 1 - October 31, 2021
Provenanceca. 1924. Bremen, Germany, Harold Wright
1933-1934, Batheaston, Somerset, England, Charles E. Carruthers
1934, London, England, Christie, Manson and Woods (auction)
London, Mr. Collings;
London, England, A.F. Reyre (dealer)
Dieren, Netherlands, D. Katz (dealer)
1937, New York, New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Inc.
1937, Glens Falls, NY, Mrs. Charlotte P. Hyde
1952, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
There are no works to discover for this record.