LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Size Notes:

24 x 31 cm.; 9.5 x 12¼ in.

Markings:

signed and dated lower left: Berchem.f/ 1656

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1902, no. 17 (according to Hofstede de Groot 1926, see Literature);; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dutch Exhibition, 30 March – 10 May 1904, no. 411 (lent by Lewis Fry).

Literature:

Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dutch Exhibition, exh. cat., London 1904, p. 52, cat. no. 411;; C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. IX, Esslingen/Paris 1926, p. 155, cat. no. 364;; B. Coenen, Old master paintings, Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam 1994, p. 4, reproduced in colour.

Provenance:

Francis Gibson (1805–58), Saffron Walden, by 1830;; By descent to his daughter Elizabeth Pease Gibson (1830–70), who in 1858 married; Sir Lewis Fry MP (1832–1921), Saffron Walden, Bristol and London, 1902; ; With B. Houthakker, Amsterdam;; With Noortman, Maastricht, 1994;; With Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam and Geneva, 1994;; Private collection, The Netherlands.