Woman in Window with a Pear

Artists

Dimensions

14.4 x 11.7 cm (5 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Sir Charles Greville, (L. 549, verso, lower left) by descent; to his nephew, George Guy Greville, Fourth Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle (without the family mark, L. 2600), by descent; to Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Seventh Earl of Warwick, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 17 March 1936, part of lot 128];* to [Edward Speelman, London]. [Schaeffer Galleries, New York], sold; to Leroy M. Backus, Seattle; [Schaeffer Galleries, New York], sold; to [Robert M. Light & Co., Boston], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956; Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund, 1956.228. *In the 1936 Sotheby’s sale from the Earl of Warwick's collection, the Fogg drawing and another small study by Bol executed primarily in gray wash, Bust of a Bearded Old Man in a Velvet Beret (Sumowski Drawings, 1, no. 143x), were sold as a single lot in one frame. In his entry on the Fogg study (Drawings 1, no. 105), Sumowski describes the drawing formerly in the Earl of Warwick collection as a separate work--“A pen and wash drawing of the same representation (127 x 101 mm), perhaps the conceptional (sic) sketch for the present drawing”--but they are one in the same. The dimensions he gives for the putative sketch are those of Bust of a Bearded Old Man in a Velvet Beret, which is smaller than the Fogg sheet, and this is perhaps why he assumed that the Warwick Woman in a Window with a Pear was another version of the composition.