LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

12.80 in. (32.50 cm.) (height) by 8.94 in. (22.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Exposicion de Pintura Flamenca y Holandesa, September - October 1941, no. 17 (as Johannes Molenaer, where belonging to Georges Wildenstein, according to a label on the reverse).

Literature:

D.P. Weller, Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, Raleigh, N.C. 2002, pp. 71-73, under cat. no. 3, reproduced fig. 2.

Provenance:

Arthur Kay, London and Glasgow (died 1939), before 1929 (as by Judith Leyster);. Georges Wildenstein, Paris, by 1941 (according to a label on the reverse);. Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), New York, Sotheby's, April 11, 1991, lot 183;. Dr Hinrich Bischoff, Berlin;. Thence by inheritance to the present owner.