
Ingram Reid
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Provenance
Acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1950s, thence by descent
Private Collection, U.S.A.
The present work depicts a detail taken from Rembrandt's Portrait of Margaretha de Geer, Wife of Jacob Trip. One of a pair of portraits of a husband and wife, one of the richest couples in the Netherlands in the 17th Century. Notably, the portrait of Margaretha does not portray the sitter facing to the side, to mirror that of her husband, but she instead gazes directly out towards the viewer, implying that she is the more engaged of the two.