LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on oak panel
Measurements:
20.75 in. (52.70 cm.) (height) by 17.52 in. (44.50 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed and dated on the placard on the back wall below the inscription: JAN STEEN 1660, inscribed on the placard:-Drie dingen wensch ick en niet meer. Voor al te minnen Godt den heer, Maar wens om tgeen de wijste badt Een eerlyck leven op dit dal-In deze drie bestaet het al.
Literature:
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné…, vol. IV, London 1833, pp. 62-3, no. 185;
G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London 1857, p. 108;
T. van Westrheene, Jan Steen, Étude sur l’art en Hollande, The Hague 1856, p. 162, no. 380;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné…, vol. I, London 1907, pp. 99-100, 104, nos. 375, 397b;
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, vol. III, London 1914, pp. 1256, 1258-9;
A. Bredius, Jan Steen, Amsterdam 1927, pp. 61-2;
W. Martin, De Hollandische schilderkunst in de zeventiende eeuw. Rembrandt en zijn tijd, vol. 2, Amsterdam 1935-6, vol. II, p. 264;
The Burlington Magazine, January 1937, p. 45, reproduced;
E.K. Waterhouse (ed.), Catalogue of the Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, exhibition catalogue, London 1938, p. 110, no. 268;
An Illustrated Souvenir of The Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe...., London 1938, reproduced p. 63, no. 268;
C.W. de Groot, Jan Steen. Beeld en woord, Utrecht 1952, pp. 61-2;
N. MacLaren, National Gallery Catalogues. The Dutch School 1600-1900, London 1960, p. 400, under no. 2558;
L. de Vries, Jan Steen. De schilderende Uilenspiegel, Amsterdam 1976, pp. 10-11, 57, reproduced 25;
L. de Vries, Jan Steen "de kluckschilder", doctoral dissertation, Groningen 1977, pp. 46, 48, 49-50, 129, n161, no. 90x;
K. Braun, Alle tot nu bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Glarus & Rotterdam 1980, p. 100, no. 115 (wrongly as on panel transferred to canvas; he was probably confusing it with the copy of that medium in the Alfred Wallach sale, Paris, 3 April 1962, lot 17);
P.C. Sutton, "The Life and Art of Jan Steen", in Jan Steen: Comedy and Admonition. Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter/Spring 1982-3, p. 29, reproduced fig. 27;
C. Brown, Scenes of Everyday Life. Dutch Genre Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London & Boston 1984, pp. 150-1, reproduced p. 150;
P.C. Sutton, in P.C. Sutton, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia 1984, pp. XLVIII, 307-8, no. 102, reproduced plate 78;
S. Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, London 1987, p. 47, reproduced;
N. MacLaren, revised by C. Brown, National Gallery Catalogues. The Dutch School 1600-1900, London 1991, vol. 1, p. 427, under no. 2558;
A.K. Wheelock Jr, in H. Perry Chapman, W. Th. Kloek, A.K. Wheelock Jr, Jan Steen. Painter and Storyteller, exhibition catalogue, New Haven & London 1996, pp. 139-141, no. 13, reproduced, also p. 190, under no. 28;
P. Biesboer, in P. van den Brink & B.W. Lindemann, Cornelis Bega. Eleganz und raue Sitten, exhibition catalogue, Aachen 2012, p. 215.
Provenance:
Johannes Enschedé, printer, Haarlem;
His deceased sale, Haarlem, Jelgersma/Van der Vinne, 30 May 1786, lot 22;
Anonymous sale, Alkmaar, Hartemink van Horstok, 17 November 1788, lot 1, for 700 Florins to Du Tour;
B. Ocke, Curate of the new church of Sint Lodewijk, Leiden;
His deceased sale, Leiden, 21 April 1817, lot 128, (described as on canvas), for 440 Florins to Ocke (presumably bought in);
Anonymous sale (Engelberts and others), Amsterdam, Van der Schley/ Roos/ De Vries, 25 August 1817, lot 91, (described as on canvas), for 275 Florins to auctioneer De Vries;
C.E.E. Baron Collot d’Escury, Leeuwarden;
His deceased sale, Leeuwarden, Proost, 17-18 October 1831, lot 33 (with dimensions 22 by 18 1/2 in.);
Mr. Chaplin, London, 1831, by whom imported from The Netherlands (according to Smith, who valued it at 250 Guineas);
James Morrison (d.1857), 57 Upper Harley Street, London, by 1848;
Probably his widow, Mary Anne Morrison (d. 1887);
Their son, Charles Morrison (d.1909), Basildon Park, Berks, (Picture no. 34, according to a label on the reverse of the frame), by 1894;
By inheritance to his brother, Walter Morrison, Basildon Park;
Who settled the inheritance on his nephew Col. James Archibald Morrison, Basildon Park (until sold in 1929), 1910;
By inheritance to his daughter Mary Morrison, 1934, who had married in 1924 John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire;
By inheritance to Geoffrey Mark Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle;
Thence by inheritance at Sudeley Castle.