Lot Essay
The figures of the two men also appear in a drawing in the Morgan Library, New York, and, with changes, in a painting in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Inv. no. 1303).
Boors playing Cards at a Table
Details
Egbert van Heemskerck I* (1610-1680)
Boors playing Cards at a Table
signed with monogram 'EHK'
oil on panel
5 x 7in. (12.7 x 19cm.)
Boors playing Cards at a Table
signed with monogram 'EHK'
oil on panel
5 x 7in. (12.7 x 19cm.)
Provenance
Warren H. Lowenhaupt, Middle Haddam, Connecticut, by whom given to the museum in 1958, as School of Adriaen Brouwer.
Literature
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings. Catalogue I. The Netherlands and German-Speaking Countries. 15th to 19th Centuries, 1978, p. 151, no. 67, pl. 65, as style of Egbert van Heemskerk I.