Lot Essay
The present painting repeats a composition by Frans van Mieris from 1670, documented by Otto Nauman in Frans van Mieris the Elder, Groningen, 1981, plate 81, of unknown whereabouts.
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Boys playing the flute and drum
Details
After Frans van Mieris I
Boys playing the flute and drum
oil on panel
7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (18.2 x 15 cm.)
Boys playing the flute and drum
oil on panel
7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (18.2 x 15 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2006, lot 81 ($2,700).
Sale room notice
Please note the correct estimate for this picture is £1,500-2,500 and not as published in the printed catalogue.
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Adrian Hume Sayer