Young Girl Sleeping

ca. between 1655 and 1660

Eberhart Keilhau Italian, 1624-1687

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Young Girl Sleeping

Artwork Date ca. between 1655 and 1660

Artist Eberhart Keilhau

Life Dates 1624-1687

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 19 × 39 1/2 inches (48.3 × 100.3 cm) Framed: 28 3/4 × 49 × 2 inches (73 × 124.5 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Jacob Heimann

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 39.592

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Provenance

Elector Palatine (Düsseldorf, Germany)

[as by Antoine Amorosi] (Schleissheim Galerie, Germany)

[as by Antoine Amorosi] July 28–29, 1927, sold by Christie's (London, England)

[lot #100, as by Velázquez] 1927, purchased by Leger (Arnhem, Netherlands)

L.D. van Hengel

May 25, 1935, sold by (Galerie Moos, Geneva, Switzerland) lot 158

[as by Velázquez] (Gallery W. Paech, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

(Jacob Heimann, New York, New York, USA)

1939–present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Pigage, Nicolas de. La Galerie Électorale de Düsseldorf, quatrième salle. 1778, p. 12, no. 211. [as by Antonio Amarosi.]

Catalogue of Views of Salisbury by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. the Property of H. Arthur Steward, Esq., Early British Portraits the Property of the late A. Wellesley Miller, Esq. Modern Pictures and Drawings the Property of Major G.C. Robertson Deceased; late of Widmerpool Hall, Nottinghamshire, Old Pictures the Property of the Rt. Hon. Baroness Zouche of Haryngworth and Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawing, Original Etchings and Engravings from Various Sources. Sales cat., Christie's, Manson & Woods, London, July 28–29, 1927, pp. 17, lot 100. [listed under "Different Properties," as by Velasquez. Annotated "Leger," "194. 15 ."]

Valentiner, W.R. "Willem Drost, Pupil of Rembrandt." Art Quarterly 2 (Autumn 1939): pp. 295-325, esp. p. 299 (fig. 2).

Trivas, N.S. "Italian Baroque Painting in San Francisco." Apollo 34 (August 1941): pp. 44-47, esp. pp. 45, 47 (fig. 1).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 13, no. 432.

Benesch, O. "Rembrandt's Artistic Heritage I: From Rembrandt to Goya." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 33, no. 975, 6th series (May 1948): pp. 281-300, esp. p. 292, 295 (fig. 9).

Old Masters. Exh. cat., Hamilton Art Gallery. Ontario, November 1968, cat. 4.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 102.

Heimbürger, M. Bernardo Keilhau detto Monsu Bernardo. Rome, 1988, p. 207, cat. 107a.

Monbeig Goguel, C. "La 'fillette endormie' du Louvre. Une suggestion pour Monsù Bernardo dessinateur." Prospettiva 57-60 (1989-90): p. 231.

Gesamtkatalog. Kassel, 1996, p. 164.

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 114-115, cat. no. 36.

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