Lady Undressing for a Bath

c. 1730/1740

Attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck

Associated Names
Gerardus Duyckinck

Painter, American, 1695 - 1746

The painting shows a woman and a man in a wood-paneled room. The woman is on the left, seated on a blue chaise lounge with carved wooden details. She is wearing a white blouse and a pink skirt, with one foot hovering above a basin of water. Her head is turned to the right. A small gray-and-brown dog is on the end of the chaise longue next to her. On the right, the man is entering the room, the pushing the wooden door open. He is holding a hat and is dressed in a blue tunic with white details, gray gloves, a red belt and red tights, and black shoes. They both have pale skin with rosy cheeks and red lips, and the woman has brown hair pulled back at the nape of her neck while the man has long gray curls. They are in a room with wood paneled walls and what looks like a heater on the far-left emitting steam.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Clermont, New York. Probably John Sanders [1714-1782] of Scotia, New York; by descent to his son, John Sanders II [1757-1834]; by descent to his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Sanders, who married Harold Wilson of Germantown, New York; by descent to their daughters, Anne and Jane Wilson, by whom sold to (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park, New York), by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1956.

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Exhibition History

1981

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, 2, 26, no. 39, color repro. (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).

Bibliography

1953

  • Keck, Caroline and Sheldon Keck. "The Conservation of Two Early Paintings." Antiques 63 (February 1953): 116-119.

1954

  • "Collectors' Notes." Antiques 65 (February 1954): 148.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 136, repro., as by Unknown American.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 278, repro., as by Unknown American.

1992

  • Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 102-103, color repro. 101.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 164, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20177843

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