LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
86.3 x 107.3 cm.; 34 x 42¼in
Markings:
signed lower centre: G. flin..., and formerly dated: 1643
Exhibited:
Detroit, Museum of Fine Arts, The Ninth Loan Exhibition. Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, 16 October – 10 November 1929, no. 23 (lent by Bohler and Steinweyer, New York);; Leeuwarden, Fries Museum, Herdenkings-tentoonstelling Lambert Jacobsz., 27 June – 27 September 1936, no. 33.
Literature:
G. Isarlo, 'Rembrandt et son entourage', in La Renaissance, no. 19, 1936, p. 34; ; A. Wassenbergh, Herdenkings-tentoonstelling Lambert Jacobsz., exh. cat., Leeuwarden 1936, p. 24, reproduced;; J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck, Amsterdam 1965, pp. 26, 29 and 101, cat. no. 170, reproduced;; W. Wegner, 'Rezension von: J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck', in Kunstchronik, vol. XIX, 1965, p. 102;; Bilder und Plastiken 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert: Sammlung Zürcher, vol. I, Lucerne 1970, cat. no. 22, reproduced;; W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. II, Landau/Pfalz 1983, p. 1023, cat. no. 627, reproduced p. 1059.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Lucerne, Fischer, 23–25 August 1928, lot 301;; With Julius Böhler, Munich, 1929 (when advertised in <em>The Art Newspaper</em>, 19 October 1929);; With Legère, Brussels, 1934;; With E. Lyndhurst, Brussels;; With Katz, Dieren, 1936;; Anonymous sale, Lucerne, Fischer, 30 August – 4 September 1937, lot 1627 (as dated 1643); ; Max Zürcher, Lucerne, by 1961;; Anonymous sale, Bern, Jürg Stuker, 23 May 2003, lot 1192, where acquired by the present owner