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We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the RKD, The Hague, for confirming the attribution to De Claeuw on the basis of photographs.
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PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART ACQUISITION FUND OF THE SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
Jacques de Claeuw (Dordrecht c. 1623-after 1694 Leiden)
A hoopoe and finches in a carved stone niche
Details
Jacques de Claeuw (Dordrecht c. 1623-after 1694 Leiden)
A hoopoe and finches in a carved stone niche
signed indistinctly 'JDCl....' (lower center)
oil on panel
18¾ x 14½ in. (47.6 x 36.8 cm.)
A hoopoe and finches in a carved stone niche
signed indistinctly 'JDCl....' (lower center)
oil on panel
18¾ x 14½ in. (47.6 x 36.8 cm.)
Provenance
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam (inv. 1518), likely before 1930;
Looted from the above by the Nazi authorities, July, 1940.
Restituted to Desiree Goudstikker, New York, 17 May 1949.
with Daan Cevat, London, until 1964.
with Van-Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, by 1964, as 'Van Leeuwen', where acquired in 1966 by the Seattle Art Museum (Margaret E. Fuller purchase fund).
Looted from the above by the Nazi authorities, July, 1940.
Restituted to Desiree Goudstikker, New York, 17 May 1949.
with Daan Cevat, London, until 1964.
with Van-Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, by 1964, as 'Van Leeuwen', where acquired in 1966 by the Seattle Art Museum (Margaret E. Fuller purchase fund).
Literature
Art Quarterly, XXX, no. 1, 1967, p. 65.
Art Quarterly, XXX, no. 2, 1967, pp. 159, 161.
Seattle Art Museum Guild, Engagement Book, 1969.
P. Sutton, Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Century, Philadelphia, 1990, pp. 163-164, as Cornelis Lelienbergh.
Art Quarterly, XXX, no. 2, 1967, pp. 159, 161.
Seattle Art Museum Guild, Engagement Book, 1969.
P. Sutton, Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Century, Philadelphia, 1990, pp. 163-164, as Cornelis Lelienbergh.
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