LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

15.00 in. (38.10 cm.) (height) by 12.72 in. (32.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, November-December 1950, no. 1. London, Richard Green, The cabinet picture: Dutch and Flemish masters of the seventeenth century, 14 April-7 May 1999, pp. 32-33; 186-187.

Literature:

M.A. Scott, Cornelis Bega (1631/32-1664) as painter and draughtsman, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1984. P. van den Brink und B.W. Lindemann, eds., Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, 2012, p. 208, under no. 54.

Provenance:

(Possibly) Duc de Choiseul; (+), sale, Le Brun, Paris, 10 December 1787, lot 47, where acquired by the following. Marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1741-1798); his sale, Le Brun, Paris, 9 December 1788, lot 156 (F fr 600). (Possibly) Anonymous sale; Ridel, Paris, 6 April 1846, lot 12 (FF 850). Etienne Le Roy (1808-1878), according to a seal on the reverse. (Possibly) Comte Philippe le Vilain XIIII; (+), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 May 1857, lot 2 (FF 1000 to the following). M. Piérard, à Valenciennes; (+), Le Roy-Laneuville, Paris, 20-21 March 1860, lot 2. Private Collection, France, by 1950. Anonymous sale; Tajan, Paris, 30 March 1998, lot 5 (FF 820,000). with Richard Green, London, 1999.