Head of a Boy
Thomas Couture (1815 - 1879), c. 1855
oil on canvas, 35 cm x 27 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0079
- Dimensions
- 35 cm x 27 cm, 60 cm x 53 cm, 11 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Durand-Ruel (Collection Cottier), lot 36 (Tête d’enfant), purchased by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 105, 27-28 May 1892; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Thomas Couture
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 149
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 111