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An old woman cutting a lobster at a window; and An old woman cleaning a fish at a market stall
Details
Follower of Frans van Mieris I; and Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam (Swammerdam ?1620-1669/70 Leiden)
An old woman cutting a lobster at a window; and An old woman cleaning a fish at a market stall
the former dated '[M]. DC. LX' ('1660', lower centre); the latter signed in monogram and dated 'Q.B.1667' (lower centre)
the former oil on copper; the latter oil on oak panel
the former 11 7/8 x 8 ¾ in. (30.2 x 22.4 cm.); the latter 11 7/8 x 10 ½ in. (30.4 x 26.4 cm.)
(2)two in the lot
An old woman cutting a lobster at a window; and An old woman cleaning a fish at a market stall
the former dated '[M]. DC. LX' ('1660', lower centre); the latter signed in monogram and dated 'Q.B.1667' (lower centre)
the former oil on copper; the latter oil on oak panel
the former 11 7/8 x 8 ¾ in. (30.2 x 22.4 cm.); the latter 11 7/8 x 10 ½ in. (30.4 x 26.4 cm.)
(2)two in the lot
Provenance
the former:
Leon Lilienfeld, Vienna, by 1917 and by descent to,
Mrs Leon Lilienfield, Winchester, Massachusetts; Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 May 1972, lot 35 as 'School of Frans van Mieris'.
the latter:
Pierre-Narcisse, Baron Guérin (1774-1833); his sale, Regnault de Lalande, Paris, 30 April 1810, lot 14.
Anonymous sale; Brondgeest and Engelberts, Amsterdam, 24 April 1820, lot 25 (8 guilders 10 stuivers to de Vries).
P.J. de Marneffe; his sale, Imprimerie de Louis Tencé, Brussels, 24 May 1830, lot 45.
T.G. Arthur, Esq., Glasgow; his sale (+), Christie’s, London, 20 March 1914, lot 111 (58 gns. to Bohler).
Leon Lilienfeld, by 1917, and by descent to,
Mrs. Leon Lilienfeld, her sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 May 1972, lot 20.
Leon Lilienfeld, Vienna, by 1917 and by descent to,
Mrs Leon Lilienfield, Winchester, Massachusetts; Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 May 1972, lot 35 as 'School of Frans van Mieris'.
the latter:
Pierre-Narcisse, Baron Guérin (1774-1833); his sale, Regnault de Lalande, Paris, 30 April 1810, lot 14.
Anonymous sale; Brondgeest and Engelberts, Amsterdam, 24 April 1820, lot 25 (8 guilders 10 stuivers to de Vries).
P.J. de Marneffe; his sale, Imprimerie de Louis Tencé, Brussels, 24 May 1830, lot 45.
T.G. Arthur, Esq., Glasgow; his sale (+), Christie’s, London, 20 March 1914, lot 111 (58 gns. to Bohler).
Leon Lilienfeld, by 1917, and by descent to,
Mrs. Leon Lilienfeld, her sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 May 1972, lot 20.
Literature
the former:
G. Glück, Niederländische Gemälde aus der Sammlung des Herrn Dr Leon Lilienfeld in Wien, Vienna, 1917, illustrated, as Frans van Mieris.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, X, 1928, p. 14, no. 51.
O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris (1635-1681) the Elder, Doornspijk, 1981, II, p. 40, no. 34, pl. 34.
the latter:
G. Glück, Niederländische Gemälde aus der Sammlung des Herrn Dr Leon Lilienfeld in Wien, Vienna, 1917, illustrated.
A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk, 1992, p. 108, no. 101, p. 23.
G. Glück, Niederländische Gemälde aus der Sammlung des Herrn Dr Leon Lilienfeld in Wien, Vienna, 1917, illustrated, as Frans van Mieris.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, X, 1928, p. 14, no. 51.
O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris (1635-1681) the Elder, Doornspijk, 1981, II, p. 40, no. 34, pl. 34.
the latter:
G. Glück, Niederländische Gemälde aus der Sammlung des Herrn Dr Leon Lilienfeld in Wien, Vienna, 1917, illustrated.
A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk, 1992, p. 108, no. 101, p. 23.