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A laughing child holding a wicker rattle

Oil Painting
mid 17th century (painted)
Artist/Maker
Bray, Jan De (artist)
Salomon De Bray (artist)
Place of origin
Netherlands (painted)

Painting depicting a child, shown half-length, turned slightly to right and looking to left, holding a wicker rattle in his left hand. The child is smiling and has red hair.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleA laughing child holding a wicker rattle (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on oak panel
Oil Paint
Oak
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, Portrait of a Laughing Child Holding a Wicker Rattle, Jan de Bray (ascribed to), mid-17th century
Physical description
Painting depicting a child, shown half-length, turned slightly to right and looking to left, holding a wicker rattle in his left hand. The child is smiling and has red hair.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 50cm
  • Estimate width: 38.5cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Style
Dutch School
Credit line
Bequeathed by Claude D. Rotch
Object history
Frankfurt a/M, Knoeckel sale, 11-2 Dec. 1919, lot 397, repr. (as G. v. Honthorst); 1933, given to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, by Countess Strachwitz and Baroness Wrede (no. 2459); sold in 943; bought by C. D. Rotch in 1954-55; bequeathed to the Museum in 1962.

This painting was reproduced in Apollo, December 1954, when it was exhibited at the Duits Gallery.
Subjects depicted
Child
Rattles
Bibliographic references
  • Kauffmann, C.M. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 46, cat. no. 46
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.48-1962

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2007
Record URL
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