LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

16.38 in. (41.60 cm.) (height) by 19.37 in. (49.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Otto Naumann, Ltd., Inaugural Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, 12 January-1 March 1995, n.p., under "1984".

Literature:

G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, The Hague, 1752, II, p. 422. Catalogus van Schilderyen van den Heer Agent Willem Lormier, The Hague, 1752, p. 8, no. 77. Catalogue des tableaux de la Collection du comte de Moltke, Copenhagen, 1913, no. 49, p. 28. E. Bénézit, Dictionary of artists, Paris, 1966, III, p. 260. P. Sutton, Masters of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, 1984, under no. 30, p. 180, note 4. E. Korthals Altes, 'The Eighteenth-Century Gentleman Dealer Willem Lormier and the International Dispersal of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings,' Simiolus, XXVIII, no. 4, 2000-2001, p. 262, note 42.

Provenance:

Sale A.L.; Rotterdam, August 1738, where acquired by. Willem Lormier (1682-1758), The Hague; (+), Francken, The Hague, 4 July 1763, lot 78 (142 florins to Van Houten). Count Frederick Christian Moltke, Copenhagen; his sale, V. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 1-2 June 1931, lot 27 (D. Kr. 5,600). Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 May 1965, lot 83 (38 gns., to Hoogstedger). (Probably) with Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, The Hague. with Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York, from whom acquired by Eric Martin Wunsch.