Quiringh van Brekelenkam

An Old Woman Bleeding a Young Woman, known as 'The Bloodletting'

Quiringh van Brekelenkam
An Old Woman Bleeding a Young Woman, known as 'The Bloodletting'

1660 Em exibição em Sala 14

Brekelenkam specialised in the subject of ordinary people going about their daily business. Here, he painted an elderly woman bleeding a younger woman. She is using heated pottery cups, which is why she is called a ‘cupper’. Bleeding was supposed to help prevent miscarriages – so the young woman may be pregnant.

Detalhes técnicos

Quiringh van Brekelenkam
An Old Woman Bleeding a Young Woman, known as 'The Bloodletting'

1660 Em exibição em Sala 14

Futuras atividades

Detalhes

Informações gerais
Artista Quiringh van Brekelenkam (Zwammerdam after? 1622 - in or after 1669 Leiden)
Título An Old Woman Bleeding a Young Woman, known as 'The Bloodletting'
Data 1660
Nome do objeto painting
Número de inventário 562
Em exibição em Sala 14
Material e detalhes técnicos
Técnica oil
Material panel
Dimensões 47.9 x 36.7 cm
Inscrições
Signed on the foot-warmer: QVB
in ligature

Origem

Possibly collection Pieter François Clignet, Leiden, 1776; sale Hendrik Twent (anonymous part), Leiden, 11 August 1789 (Lugt 4469), no. 142 (for 175 guilders to Delfos); Menno, Baron Van Coehoorn; his sale, Amsterdam, 19 October 1801 (Lugt 6320), no. 8 (for 355 guilders to Theodorus Spaan); Pieter de Smeth, Lord of Alphen and Rietveld, Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, 1-2 August 1810 (Lugt 7842), no. 16 (for 275 guilders to Van I(Y)peren for Bredius sr.); Abraham Bredius, Naarden, 1810-1863; his grandson, Abraham Bredius, Amsterdam and The Hague, before 1889-1946 (on loan to the Mauritshuis, since 1892); bequest of Abraham Bredius, 1946