LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on oak panel
Measurements:
22.00 in. (55.88 cm.) (height) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)
Markings:
indistinctly signed lower left on the stone slab: JSteen (JS in compendium)
Exhibited:
London, British Institution, Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and English Masters, July 1832, no. 161 (as' The marriage of Jan Steen's Daughter'), where lent by Charles Brind Esq.;
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Danses et Divertissements, 1948-49, no. 198;
The Hague, Mauritshuis, Jan Steen: Tentoonstelling georganiseerd door de Stichting Johan Mauritz van Nassau, 20 December 1958 - 15 February 1959, no. 18, reproduced plate 18, where lent by the Duchesse de Brissac (with erroneous dimensions: 59 by 37 cm.).
Literature:
available on website
Provenance:
Pieter de la Court van der Voort, Leiden (1665-1739);
His deceased sale, Amsterdam, Slagregen, 26 August 1772, lot 6, to Fouquet for 215 florins;
Pierre Fouquet Jr. (a 'marchand d'estampes');
His deceased sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley, 13-14 April 1801, lot 66, for 265 guilders to La Fontaine;
Possibly Mr. Wilkinson, Gloucester Place, London;
Anonymous sale, ('The Property of a Gentleman, Deceased. Removed from his late residence in Gloucester Place'), possibly Mr Wilkinson (according to Westrheene, see Literature), London, Christie's, 25 April 1828, lot 110, for £114 9s to Emmerson (as 'The Wedding Day');
Charles Brind collection, by 1832;
His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 12 May 1849, lot 67, for £109 4s. to W. Theobald (as 'the Painter and his family merrymaking at the wedding of his daughter');
Thomas Capron, London;
His sale, London, Christie's, 3 May 1851, lot 80, for 190 gns to Lightfoot (as 'Jan Steen's wedding');
M. Schneider ('President du corps legislatif'), Paris;
His deceased sale, Paris, Pillet & Escribe, Hôtel Drouot, 6-7 April 1876, lot 36, for FF 7,000 to Jacobi;
Duchesse de Brissac, Paris, by 1958;
With Richard Green, London, 1996;
From whom acquired by the present owner.