LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

14.65 in. (37.20 cm.) (height) by 11.61 in. (29.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly signed 'V. VNNE' (upper left); and inscribed 'Fray en Leelijk' (upper right, inscribed 'Fray en Leelijk' (upper right, on the scroll)

Exhibited:

New York, National Academy of Design, Dutch and Flemish paintings from New York private collections, September 1988, no. 51. Enschede, Rijkmuseum Twenthe, De Nieuwe Smaak: de kunst van het verzamelen in de 21ste eeuw, 17 January-21 August 2016 (not numbered).

Literature:

M. Westermann, 'Fray en Leelijck: Adriaen van de Venne's Invention of the Ironic Grisaille', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, L, no. 1, 1999, pp. 238 and 248-9, fig. 22.

Provenance:

Jean Nicolas Joseph 'Alfred' Havenith (1838-1913), Antwerp; his sale (†), Eugène Van Herck en Zonen, Brussels, 10 November 1913, lot 5. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 July 1986, lot 20. Eric Noah, New York, by 1999. with Otto Naumann, New York, from whom acquired by the family of the following, Martin Wunsch; (†), Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 2014, lot 276, when acquired by the present owner.