LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.77 in. (68.00 cm.) (height) by 32.28 in. (82.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower right: HM Sorgh/1661

Exhibited:

On loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen door Oud-Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Meesters waaronder beroemde meesterwerken als Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jan Steen, enz. enz. uit de Collectie de Fa. D. Katz te Dieren, 16 November - 15 December 1935, no. 64 (lent by Katz, with provenance from de Nemes, Budapest); Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Berlin, Staatliche Museen; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, 18 March-18 November 1984, cat. no. 100.

Literature:

P. Sutton, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia 1984, pp. 303-304, cat. no. 100, reproduced plate 94.

Provenance:

Possibly Johan van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht; His sale, Dordrecht, Yver/Delfos, 22 August 1785, lot 393, for 135 florins to Laytsche; Joost van Steenberghen, Belgium; His sale, Ghent, De Goesin, 28 October 1802, lot 12; Marczell von Nemes, until 1930; With D. Katz, Dieren, in 1935; With Abraham Nijstad, Lochem / The Hague; From whom acquired in 1949 by a Dutch Private Collector and thence by descent in the family to his son; By whom sold ("Property from a Private Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 28; There purchchased by the present collector.