An officer offering a glass of wine to a lady seated by a table in an interior

Details

Attributed to Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682)
An officer offering a glass of wine to a lady seated by a table in an interior
oil on canvas
37.9 x 32.3 cm.

Provenance

Kellner, Vienna; sale, Lepke, Berlin, 3 December 1929, lot 13.

Literature

'Vorschau auf die Herbstversteigerungen', Kunst und Kunstler, XXVIII, 2, 1930, p. 86, illustrated.
E. Plietzsch, 'Jacob Ochtervelt', Pantheon, XX, 1937, p. 368.
Idem, Holländische und flämische Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, 1960, p. 68.
S. Donahue Kuretsky, The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt, 1979, p. 103, no. D14, fig. 182.

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Sale room notice

Please note that the attribution should read:
Circle of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682).

Lot Essay

In her catalogue raisonné, Mrs. Donahue Kuretsky includes the present lot under "Paintings of Disputed Attribution". While she notes that the pose of the officer recalls that in Ochtervelt's painting of circa 1675 in a private collection, England (op. cit., no. 85, fig. 99), she expresses doubts about Ochtervelt's authorship on the basis of the unusual facial types, the lighting and the furnishing of the interior.

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