An elegant couple counting money by candlelight, at a stone niche

Details

Michiel Versteegh (1756-1843)
An elegant couple counting money by candlelight, at a stone niche
signed (strengthened) and dated (strengthened) M.versteegh.Fecit 1779. lower left
oil on panel
51.7 x 40.7 cm

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Christie's London, 11 March 1949, lot 124 (22 gns to Gluyas).
Anon. Sale, Christie's New York, 7 October 1993, lot 155, ill.
with J. van Haeften, London, 1994.

Exhibited

Maastricht, The European Fine Art Fair, 1994.

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

As pointed out by R. van de Eijnden and A. van der Willigen, Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst, III, 1820, p.85, the artist started his career as a landscape painter. As the present lot is dated 1779, it must be one of his earliest candlelight scenes for which he later became famous.

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