The Knitting Mistress
Gerke Henkes (1844 - 1927), in or before 1875
oil on panel, 41.2 cm x 50.8 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0141
- Dimensions
- 41.2 cm x 50.8 cm, 71.5 cm x 81 cm, 13 cm
- Provenance
- Acquired by Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, The Hague, between 1875 and 1877; 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
- Gerke Henkes
- 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. 221
Overdijk, Femke, Gerke Henkes : een stil geluk : het Hollandse interieurstuk in de 19e eeuw, Voorburg, 2019, p. 8-9