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.