Nicolaes Maes, Dutch, 1634-1693
Title: Portrait of a Lady, possibly Catharina Dierquens
Date: late 1680s
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
55.2 x 42.7 cm
Credit Line: Presented, Sir Henry Page Turner Barron, 1878
Object Number: NGI.204
ProvenancePresented, Sir Henry Page Turner Barron, 1898
Exhibition HistoryCentenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, October - December 1964
From Titian to Delacroix: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland, Yokohama Sogo Museum of Art, 25 August - 17 October 1993; Chiba Sogo Museum of Art, 10 November - 20 December 1993; Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, 5 January - 20 Fabruary 1994; Kobe City Museum, 25 February - 10 April 1994; Isetan Museum of Art, 14 April - 24 May 1994
European Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery, Canberra, 25 June - 3 October 1994; Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 October 1994 - 15 January 1995
From Titian to Delacroix: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland, Yokohama Sogo Museum of Art, 25 August - 17 October 1993; Chiba Sogo Museum of Art, 10 November - 20 December 1993; Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, 5 January - 20 Fabruary 1994; Kobe City Museum, 25 February - 10 April 1994; Isetan Museum of Art, 14 April - 24 May 1994
European Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery, Canberra, 25 June - 3 October 1994; Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 October 1994 - 15 January 1995
Label TextMaes trained with Rembrandt in Amsterdam around 1650, but returned to his native town of Dordrecht. He began his career painting biblical and genre scenes, but later became a highly prolific portrait painter, first in Dordrecht and, during the last twenty years of his life, in Amsterdam. The woman’s appearance bears a striking resemblance to a sitter in another portrait painting by Maes, now at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, which has been identified as Catharina Dierquens (1664-1715).