LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.06 in. (53.50 cm.) (height) by 17.52 in. (44.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Guildhall, 1903 (according to the Preyer and Bischoffsheim sale catalogues and Donahue Kuretsky);. Dieren, Firma D. Katz, Oud-Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Meesters , 16 November - 15 December 1935, no. 49; . New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1967-69, on loan (loan inv. no. 67.45); . London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Harold Samuel Collection , 4 August - 2 October 1988, no. 47; . Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi Museum of Art; Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Frick Art Museum; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Dutch & Flemish Seventeenth-century paintings. The Harold Samuel Collection , 1992-93, no. 46; London, Guildhall, 1993-2017; . Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting , 17 June - 17 September 2017, no. 9.4

Literature:

E. Plietzsch, 'Jacob Ochtervelt', in. Pantheon , vol. 20, 1937, p. 364;. E. Plietzsch, Holländische und Flämische Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts , Leipzig 1960, p. 67; . S. Donahue Kuretsky, The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682) , Oxford 1979, pp. 17, 62-63, no. 23, reproduced fig. 33 (as circa 1664); . O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris (1635-1681) The Elder , Doornspijk 1981, vol. 1, p. 62, note 64; . A. Woodhouse, 'A New Home for Old Masters', in Country Life , 10 March 1988, p. 127, reproduced on the cover; . A. Speelman, 'The Harold Samuel Collection', in Galleries , vol. 6, no. 3, August 1988, p. 15; . I. Gaskell, Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Painting. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection , London 1990, p. 258, note 10, reproduced; . O. Ydema, Carpets in Netherlandish Paintings , Leiden and Zutphen 1991, p. 185, no. 803; P.C. Sutton, Dutch & Flemish Seventeenth-century paintings. The Harold Samuel Collection , Cambridge 1992, pp. 134-36, no. 46, reproduced (as circa 1664-65); . M. Hall, The Harold Samuel Collection: A Guide to the Dutch and Flemish Pictures at Mansion House, London 2012, pp. 112-13, no. 44, reproduced; . Q. Buvelot, in A.E. Waiboer, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting , exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London 2017, pp. 169, 249, cat. no. 9.4, reproduced p. 168 (as circa 1664-65

Provenance:

Le Comte de Morny, Paris;. Anonymous sale ('d'une très-belle collection'), Paris, Drouot, 27-28 April 1874, lot 73, for 6,000 Francs; . Henry Louis Bischoffsheim, Bute House, South Audley Street, London, probably by 1903; . His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 7 May 1926, lot 75, for £1,417. 10s to Wallis; . Alphons Preyer, Paris and The Hague; . His sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 8 November 1927, lot 23, for 310,000 Florins to Galerie van Diemen; . J. Teixeira de Mattos, Amsterdam; . With Firma D. Katz, Dieren, 1935-36, by whom probably sold to . Dr Joan Hendrik Smidt van Gelder, Arnhem; . From whose safe in the Amsterdam Bank, Arnhem, looted by Helmut Temmler, Head of the Gaukommando Düsseldorf , in 1945 and taken to Düsseldorf; . With Galerie Peiffer, Düsseldorf, 1950s; . With Galerie Kurt Meissner, Zurich, 1965; . From whom acquired by Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Washington, by 1967 until 1969 or later, by whom sold to Edward Speelman; . With Edward Speelman Ltd., London, by whom sold to Harold Samuel, London, 1971; . Bequeathed to the City of London Corporation, 1987; . By whom restituted to the heirs of Dr J.H. Smidt van Gelder on 6 November 2017