LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

15.55 in. (39.50 cm.) (height) by 12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

Inscribed 'No 19' and 'No 39' (white paint, verso)

Exhibited:

L.J. Bol, ‘Goede Onbekenden. Nederlandse schilderijen uit de 16e en 17e eeuw zonder signatuur of met een (nog) niet verklaard monogram gemerkt’, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, 1959, pp. 6-7, cat. no. 10 (as Monogrammist I.S.), repr.

Literature:

B. J. Renckens: unpublished thesis on the Monogrammist I.S. with catalogue raisonné, typescript, c. 1950s/60s, preserved in Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague (archive B.J. Renckens), unpaginated.

Provenance:

Anton van Welie (1866–1956), The Hague. – His estate sale, S. J. Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 7.4.1936, lot 22, (attributed to Gerrit Dou, with expertise by Prof. Dr. Willem Vogelsang; an example of the auction catalogue of Hans Schneider is annotated: ‘eerder meester IS (more likely Master IS), and kept in the RKD in The Hague). - Anton van Welie, until 1953 (as Dou). – Purchased from J. van Duijvendijk, 1953 (attributed to the Monogrammist I.S.), The Hague, 1959. – Private collection, Netherlands.