LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 21.89 in. (55.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

dated 'Anno 1648' (centre

Exhibited:

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Vermeer-Tentoonstelling, 1935, no. 63a, fig. 138.

Literature:

C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Die Koedijck-Rätsel und ihre Lösung', Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, XXIX, 1903, pp. 45-46, illustrated. W. Martin, Catalogue Collection Baron L. Janssen, Brussels, 1923, no. 60, reproduced. C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Isack Koedijck', Festschrift für Max J. Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstag, 1929, p. 189. W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1948, II, no. 456. W. Bernt, Netherlandish Painters of the 17th Century, London, 1970, II, no. 633. P. C. Sutton, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, 1984, pp. 213, 218, 230, fig. 3. W. Liedtke, A View of Delft, Vermeer and his Contemporaries, Zwolle, 2000, pp. 143-147, fig. 189.

Provenance:

(Probably) Arthur Kay (1861-1939), Edinburgh. (Probably) with Julius Böhler, Munich, 1910. Baron Léon Janssen (1849-1923), Brussels; his sale (†), Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 26 April 1927, lot 60. Dr. Cornelis Johannes Karel van Aalst (1866-1939), by 1935. with Brod Gallery, London. with Cramer, The Hague, 1966. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1979, lot 121. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1994, lot 1, where acquired by the present owner.