LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.33 in. (61.80 cm.) (height) by 31.77 in. (80.70 cm.) (width)

Literature:

A. Cunningham, The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures by the First Masters of the English and Foreign Schools in seventy-two line engravings, with biographical and critical dissertations, vol. II, London, 1834, p. 144, ill., no. 150 ,J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters: Supplement, London, 1842, p. 512, no. 101 ,T. Van Westrheene, Jan Steen: Etude Sur L'Art En Hollande, The Hague, 1856, p. 150, no. 265,C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue of Works of Dutch Paintings, vol. I, London, 1907, pp. 66-67, no. 213,K. Braun, Alle tot nu bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, pp. 164-5, ill. no. B 44 (as not by Jan Steen)

Provenance:

The Collection of Charles Heusch, London, between 1833-1842,With John Smith, London, 1842 ,Sale, Lepke, Berlin, 27 October 1925,lot 88,Sale, Lepke, Berlin, 23 March 1926, lot 100,Private Collection, Spain, until 2012