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| Artist | Dutch School |
| Title | Portrait of a Girl Aged One with a Rattle |
| Date | 1635 (dated) |
| Material | oil on panel (hardwood {oak}) |
| Measurements | 106.7 x 83.8 cm |
| Inscription | front cr ‘AETATIS. SVE.J./1635’ |
| Description | Small full-length portrait of a standing child. She wears a long dark dress with lace cuffs and matching ruff and trim to her bonnet and white linen apron (showing creases from folding). Around her neck is a coral necklace of three strings, with matching bracelets around each wrist. In her left hand she holds a silver rattle or rinkelbel, attached to her apron strings by a triple chain. In her right hand, she holds a shell or perhaps shell-shaped pastry, picked from a metal platter of other white similar objects or sweetmeats. Black and white chequer-pattern tiled floor. Plain background. |
| Subject | portrait |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): The Burrell Collection |
| Current accession number | 35.253 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 446 |
| Acquisition details | Given by Sir William and Lady Burrell 1944. |
| Provenance | ‘Bought [by Sir William Burrell (1861-1958)] in Holland about 1890’. |
| Principal exhibitions | Children in Three Centuries, Adam House, Edinburgh, 1957, cat. no. 5. |
| Principal publications | Wright, C. (ed.), Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, Birmingham, 1989, p. 188, as Dutch School. |
| Notes |
R. Ekkart 2004 (oral communication): very possibly Frisian School, perhaps inspired by earlier work from West Frisia (e.g. Enkhuisen), under the influence of Jan Claesz. |
| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
