Young Woman Playing the Clavichord, Cornelis-Henricus van Meurs, after Gerard Dou, c. 1720 - c. 1730

Title(s)

Young Woman Playing the Clavichord
A young woman at the clavichord

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1908-292

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 5

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Een jonge vrouw bespeelt het klavichord. Onderaan in de marge een tweeregelig vers in het Frans.

Artist

• print maker: Cornelis-Henricus van Meurs (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Cornelis Hubert van Meurs (rejected attribution)
• after painting by: Gerard Dou (mentioned on object)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

c. 1720 - c. 1730

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 317 mm × width 268 mm

What

• one person playing keyboard instrument
• spinet, virginal

Credit line

• Gift of Jonkheer H. Teding van Berkhout, Baarn

Acquisition

gift 1908

Copyright

Public domain

• Meer - Ossenbeeck, p. 21, cat.nr. 5
• G. Wuestman, 'C.H. van meurs and his fijnschilder prints: a mysterious printmaker with a forgotten oeuvre', Simiolus 37 (2013-2014), p. 135, cat. nr. 14