LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

33.35 in. (84.70 cm.) (height) by 26.65 in. (67.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated centre: JDClauew ( JDC in ligature) 1649, and inscribed with inventory number: 538

Literature:

Newbattle Abbey inventory, c. 1726/27 ('ane other stil life with a fidle etc, by [?]Claschye');. Newbattle Abbey inventory, March 1833, no. 538;. Newbattle Abbey inventory, May 1878, no. 538 (Passage);. C. Hofstede de Groote, 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', in. Oud Holland , 11, 1893, p. 215 (as hanging at Newbattle Abbey).

Provenance:

Bought by Robert Kerr, 4th Earl of Lothian (1636-1703), in Europe, in . circa 1670;. Thence by descent.