A Woman with a Rosebud leaning out of a Window
Philips de Koninck (Amsterdam 1619 - Amsterdam 1688)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1660 - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
800 x 635 mm (31 1/2 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486269
Caption
This picture is falsely signed by Rembrandt, to whom various works by de Koninck have been attributed. This type of genre picture would certainly have held some sort of moralising message, and the as yet unopened rosebud must surely hold some significance. The rose is traditionally associated with the Virgin Mary and Venus. The fact that this girl’s rose has not yet blossomed, probably alludes to her innocence, and lack of experience in the ways of love.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Woman with a Rosebud leaning out of a Window by Philips Aertsz. de Koninck (Amsterdam 1619 – Amsterdam 1688), bears false signature: Rembrandt f. , 1660s. A portrait of an unknown woman wearing a white blouse with a dark brown apron and holding a rosebud. She is leaning on a sill, looking to the left front with her arms folded and in her left hand she holds a red rosebud.
Provenance
First recorded in the G.Bicker van Zwieten sale, The Hague, 12 April 1741 and bought by van Olden. On 15 November 1802 five paintings sold to the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by William Devreux including this one. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by HM Treasury and transferred in 1990
Marks and inscriptions
REMBRANT F
Makers and roles
Philips de Koninck (Amsterdam 1619 - Amsterdam 1688), artist
References
Sumowski 1983-1990 Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz, 5 vols 1983-1990, 1983, vol.IV, p..., pl.2340a.