LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

49.5 x 66.6

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'JSteen'

Literature:

J. Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonn of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, 1842, p. 502, no. 74.T. van Westrheene, Jan Steen: tudes sur l'art en Hollande, The Hague, 1856, no. 395.C. Hofsede de Groot, A catalogue raisonn of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London, 1907, I, p. 69, no. 223. A. Bredius, Jan Steen, 1927, p. 31, illustrated.K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende Schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, pp. 92-93, no. 44, illustrated.

Provenance:

Herbert W. Mertens, Westphalia; () Christie's, London, 2 March 1833, lot 68, 42 gns. to the following, Mr Chaplin; sale, Amsterdam, 1833 (470 fls).with Agnew's, London, by 1907. Anonymous sale [J.D. Kruseman et al.]; Frederick Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 11 December 1919, lot 99, illustrated. with Nathan Katz, Dieren, by 1936. with Newhouse Galleries, New York, no. 17602.Thomas Mellon Evans, New York; Christie's, New York, 22 May 1998, lot 51.