Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right): MAAS
Notes The picture is the pendant to the portrait of Ingena Rotterdam (MMA 11.149.3), the betrothed of the sitter. Binckes died before the marriage took place.
Provenance Mrs. F. Lemker (née Muller), Oldenbroek and Kampen (until 1908; her sale, Frederik Muller, Kampen, July 7, 1908, no. 26 [with 11.149.3], for 2,600 florins ?to an American dealer); [Frank T. Sabin, London, from 1908]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York (until 1911)
Exhibition History New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Dutch Couples: Pair Portraits by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries," January 23–March 5, 1973, no. 12 (with MMA 11.149.3).
Cincinnati. Taft Museum. "Dutch Couples: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," December 15, 1973–March 3, 1974, unnumbered cat.
Memphis. Brooks Memorial Art Gallery. "Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 1–June 23, 1982, no catalogue?
Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Museum of Art. "Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," August 28–November 28, 1982, no catalogue?
Hamilton, N.Y. Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. "Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 6–April 17, 1983, no. 4.
Rochester, N.Y. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. "Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 3–June 5, 1983, no. 4.
Amarillo, Tex. Amarillo Art Center. "Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 22–July 31, 1983, no. 4.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
Museum of the City of New York. "Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson," April 4–September 27, 2009, no catalogue.
References "London Letter." American Art News 6 (August 15, 1908), p. 2, notes that the two pendant portraits are at Sabin's Gallery, London.A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century . 6, London, 1916, pp. 517–18, no. 142, states that the two pendants were bought for 2,600 florins by an American dealer at the 1908 Lemker sale.Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Exh. cat., Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. Hamilton, N.Y., 1983, p. 19, no. 4, ill.in Prijst de Lijst: De Hollandse schilderijlijst in de zeventiende eeuw . Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, 1984, p. 179, fig. c, under no. 37, call the frames of the two pendants late examples of this type.in "Paintings, Drawings, and Prints: Art-Historical Perspectives." Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aspects of Connoisseurship . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2, New York, [1995], p. 151, under no. 53, mentions it and its pendant as "a pair of splendid small portraits".Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693) . Petersberg, Germany, 2000, pp. 23, 28, 30, 102, 120 n. 1 (to chapter 6), p. 121 n. 14, pp. 278, 316, no. A173a, fig. 259.Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 446–49, no. 113, colorpl. 113.
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