LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 21.65 in. (55.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

dated 'Anno 1648' (center, on the map)

Exhibited:

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans 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 , Bruxelles, 1923, no. 60. 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 , 1948, II, no. 456. W. Bernt, Netherlandish Painters of the 17th Century , 1970, II, no. 633. P. C. Sutton, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting , exhibition catalogue, 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, Edinburgh. (Probably) with Julius Böhler, Munich, 1910. Baron Léon Janssen, Brussels, by 1923; his sale, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller, 26 April 1927, lot 60. C.J.K. van Aalst, Hoevelaken, 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