Portrait of a Woman

This woman was also 60 in 1597, and her round panel turned out to be cut from the same oak as the portrait of a man that hangs in the same room. For decades the two lived apart. He reached the Mauritshuis in 1953. Her route ran through the Second World War.

In August 1940, three months after the German invasion, the Katz gallery in Dieren sold her for 377 guilders to Alois Miedl, a German banker and art dealer then active in Amsterdam, as a work by Thomas de Keyser. She went on to a bank in Munich and was found after the war at the Allied collecting point in that city, which returned her to the Netherlands. In 1952 the Dutch foundation for recovered art sold her at auction, again as De Keyser. Only in 1996 did a gift let the Mauritshuis acquire her and hang the pair side by side.