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Portrait of Nicolaes Willemsz. Lossy and his wife Marritgen Pieters
Gerard Donck (Dutch, before 1610–after 1640)

Title

Portrait of Nicolaes Willemsz. Lossy and his wife Marritgen Pieters

Artist

Gerard Donck (Dutch, before 1610–after 1640)

Date

1633

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

18 3/4 × 24 3/4 in. (47.6 × 62.9 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Museum purchase with funds from the Berchel H. and Alice Dale Harper Estate and bequest of Rose Marie Baumgarten

Object Number

2017.2

On View

On view

Provenance

Wayne Charfield-Taylor (1883–1967), Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yorktown, Virginia;
By inheritance in a private collection, United States, 1967–2010;
Consigned from a private collection to Sotheby’s, New York, 2010;
Purchased at sale, Old Master Paintings, Sotheby’s, New York, June 3, 2010, lot 64, by Richard Green Fine Paintings, London, 2010–May 1, 2017;
Purchased from Richard Green Fine Paintings by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2017.

Exhibition History

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

Published References

Ruud van der Neut, “Ontdekkingen op TEFAF,” Tableau (February–March 2011): 72–74, (repro.).

Sabine Craft-Giepmans, De Amsterdamse organist Nicolaes Willemsz. Lossy (ca. 1604–1664), door Gerrit Donck geportretteerd (Amsterdam: 2011), 122–29, (repro.).

Anita Jansen, ed., Pieter de Hooch in Delft: Uit de schaduw van Vermeer (Zwolle, Netherlands: WBOOKS, 2018), (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 84–85, (repro.).