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Details
Pieter de Bloot (circa 1601-1658)
A maid plucking a duck in a kitchen, with a pile of cooking utensils and vegetables nearby
signed lower left and dated lower right P.de.Bloot/1639
oil on panel
24.7 x 34.5 cm
A maid plucking a duck in a kitchen, with a pile of cooking utensils and vegetables nearby
signed lower left and dated lower right P.de.Bloot/1639
oil on panel
24.7 x 34.5 cm
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Dorotheum Vienna, 31 January 1928, lot 202
with H.H. Cevat, Pully-Lausanne, 1954
with Karl Loevenich, New York, 1956
with Raphael Valls, London
with H.H. Cevat, Pully-Lausanne, 1954
with Karl Loevenich, New York, 1956
with Raphael Valls, London
Literature
L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf, 1974, p. 76, note 148, p. 312 and plate 182