About the Artwork
A Woman Cleaning Fish
1647
Hercules Sanders
1606- after 1673
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 16 1/2 × 27 3/4 inches (41.9 × 70.5 cm) Framed: 24 5/8 × 36 × 3 3/8 inches (62.5 × 91.4 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.16
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower left: h. Sanders f 1647
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Provenance
collection of Louis R. Ehrich (New York, New York, USA)
January 22-23, 1895, auctioned by (Ortgies & Co., New York, New York, USA), lot 90
1895-1906, purchased by James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1906-1909, by descent to his wife, Harriet Scripps [1838-1933] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. DMA. Detroit, 1910, p. 50, no. 77.
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 52, no. 46 [as Gerrit Lundens].
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 117, no. 719.
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. DIA. London, 2004, pp. 218-219 [entry by G. S. Keyes].
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Hercules Sanders, A Woman Cleaning Fish, 1647, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.16.
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