LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

9.76 in. (24.80 cm.) (height) by 7.56 in. (19.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'A vander Werff fe', l.c.; dated '1678', l.c.

Condition:

Sparre frame type 4, numbered 55.

Exhibited:

Stockholm, 1893, no. 109; Stockholm, 1967, no. 174 (p. 111 in the catalog); Kristianstad, 1977, no. 43.

Literature:

Granberg, 1885-6, no. 66; Göthe, 1895, p. 29, no. 73; Granberg, 1911-12, vol. I, no. 415, reproduced vol. 2, plate 55; C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke .... vol. ??, Stuttgart/Paris 1928, p. 280, no. 169; G. Poensgen, `Die Bildergalerie Friedrichs der Großen in Sanssouci und Adriaen van der Werff', in Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, 1930, p. 177f; Hasselgren, 1974, p. 116, 120, 127, reproduced p. 192; M.F. Durantini, The Child in Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting, Studies in the Fine Arts: Iconography, Ann Arbor 1983, p. 262; B. Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff, Munich 1987, pp. 200-1, no. 5, reproduced (as in Lunds, Universiteits-Kunstmuseum).

Provenance:

J.G. Cramer; His sale, Amsterdam, Cok, 13 or 15 November 1769, lot 18, with pendant, a woman with a dog, for 1,400 Francs; Gustaf Adolf Sparre (1746-1794); Sparre inv., 1794, no. 34.