LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

22.99 in. (58.40 cm.) (height) by 28.62 in. (72.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated(?) 'JSteen 1673' (lower left)

Exhibited:

The Hague, Schilderkundig Genootschap Pulchri Studio, Catalogue de la Catalogue Goudstikker d'Amsterdam , 13 March-4 April 1926, no. 170. Venlo, Limburgs Museum, on loan from the Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, inv. NK 899

Literature:

G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen.zoo in Holland als op andere plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt: benevens een verzameling van lysten van verscheyden nog in wezen zynde cabinetten , The Hague, 1752, II, p. 16. J.B. Descamps, La vie des peintres flamandes, allemandes et hollandais , Paris, 1760, part II, p. 211. J.A. Smith, Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters , London, 1829-42, supplement, no. 60. T. van Westrheene, Jan Steen. Etudes sur l'art en Hollande , The Hague, 1856, no. 392. C. Hofstede de Groot , Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der hervorragendsten holländische Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts , Paris, 1907, I, no. 747. C. Wright, Paintings in Dutch Museums. An Index of Oil Paintings in Public Collections in The Netherlands by Artists born before 1870 , London, 1980, p. 436. K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen , Rotterdam, 1980, pp. 138-9, no. 353, p. 75. Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue , Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), The Hague, 1992, p. 281, no. 2468

Provenance:

Willem Lormier (b. 1682), The Hague. Anonymous sale; Jan Schimmelpennick, Amsterdam, 12 July 1819 (to Brondgeest). Jean Jacques de Faesch; his sale Jeronimo de Vries, Amsterdam, 3-4 July 1833 [=1st day] (to Chaplin). Anonymous sale; Héris, Brussels, 19-20 June 1846 [=1st day]. Abbé, Dujardin, Bruges. with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1926, inv. 853. Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940. Recovered by the Allies, 1945. In the custody of the Dutch Government. Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker