LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.11 in. (46.00 cm.) (height) by 22.64 in. (57.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'JSteen' ('JS' linked lower right)

Exhibited:

Basel, Kunstmuseum, Meisterwerke holländischer Malerei des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts in Kunstmuseum, 23 June - 19 August 1945, no. 91. London, Leonard Koetser, April-May 1964.

Literature:

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, etc., London, 1908, p. 101, no. 383a, 'from the description it seems of very doubtful authenticity'. W.V. Bode, the Collection of Pictures of the late Herr A. de Ridder in his Villa at Schönberg near Cronberg in the Taunus, Berlin, 1913, pp. 9-10, pl. 30. A. Bredius, Jan Steen, Amsterdam, 1926, II, pp. 62-3, fig. 64, as 'a magnificent work'. the Connoisseur, October 1963, vol. 154, p. xlii. the Connoisseur, April 1964, vol. 155, p. lvi. the Burlington Magazine, April 1964, vol. 106, p. 192, fig. 61. L.D. Vries, Jan Steen 'de Kluchtschilder, PhD Dissertation, University of Groningen, 1977, pp. 36-7, no. 38. K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, no. B-105, as a rejected work. P.C. Sutton and M.H. Butler, 'the Life and Art of Jan Steen', Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, LXXVIII, Nos. 337/338, Winter 1982-Spring 1983, p. 31, under note 7.

Provenance:

Harriet, Lady Wantage (1837-1920), wife of Robert James Lindsay, subsequently Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Lord Wantage, V.C., K.C.B. (1832-1901), Lockinge House, Berkshire. A. von Keller; sale, Frankfurt-am-Main, 17 May 1904, lot 83 (according to Hotstede de Groot). Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London. andré de Ridder, Cronberg (1868-1921); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2 June 1924, lot 70 (bought by Lugt). Private collection, Switzerland, by 1942. with Leonard Koetser, London, where acquired by the present owner in 1964.