LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

dated on the map 1648

Literature:

C. Hofstede de Groot, "Die Koedijck-Rästel und ihre Lösung," Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, vol. XXIV, 1903, p. 46, illus. p. 45; C. Hofstede de Groot, in Festshrift für Max J. Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstag, 1927, p. 189; E. Plietzsche, Höllandische und Flämische Maler des XVII. Jahr, Leipzig 1960, p. 79, pl. 130; P.C. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, London and Philadelphia 1984, p. 230, under no. 59 ("three extant versions"); Great Masters of Western Art: Jan Vermeer, Tokyo 2006, p. 66, illus. in color.

Provenance:

Jonkheer A. van Panhuis, Slot Nienoort, near Leek, Groningen, The Netherlands, until circa 1927; Dr. Eduard Beith, London, 1938; Private collector, England, by whom offered London, Sotheby's, March 24, 1966, lot 66 (unsold); By inheritance to his wife; Sale, London, Sotheby's, April 22, 2004, lot 37, where purchased for £84,000 by the present owner.