Lot Essay
Knuttel notes that the central figure in the present painting is derived from Brouwer's Allegory of Taste in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich (op. cit., p. 136, fig. 88).
Boors smoking and drinking in an Interior
Details
Circle of Adriaen Brouwer (1650/6-1638)
Boors smoking and drinking in an Interior
bears indistinct monogram 'AB'
oil on panel
8.3/8 x 6.5/8in. (21.2 x 16.8cm.)
Boors smoking and drinking in an Interior
bears indistinct monogram 'AB'
oil on panel
8.3/8 x 6.5/8in. (21.2 x 16.8cm.)
Provenance
M.D. Wolff, Berlin; sale, Lepke, Berlin, Nov. 17, 1885.
Wilhelm Gumprecht, Berlin; sale, Cassirer, Helbing, March 21, 1918, lot 16, as Adriaen Brouwer (26000M).
with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, as Adriaen Brouwer.
with Newhouse Galleries, as Adriaen Brouwer, from whom purshased by the present owner in 1959.
Wilhelm Gumprecht, Berlin; sale, Cassirer, Helbing, March 21, 1918, lot 16, as Adriaen Brouwer (26000M).
with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, as Adriaen Brouwer.
with Newhouse Galleries, as Adriaen Brouwer, from whom purshased by the present owner in 1959.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonn, etc., III, 1910, p. 600, no. 103, as Brouwer.
W. von Bode, Adriaen Brouwer, 1924, no. 72, as Brouwer.
G. Knuttel, Adriaen Brouwer, 1962, p.140, as '...difficult to regard as an original by Brouwer'.
W. von Bode, Adriaen Brouwer, 1924, no. 72, as Brouwer.
G. Knuttel, Adriaen Brouwer, 1962, p.140, as '...difficult to regard as an original by Brouwer'.
Exhibited
Berlin, Ausstellung von Werken der niederlndischen Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts, 1890, no. 20, as Brouwer.
Berlin, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus Berliner Privatbesitz, 1915, no. 17, as Brouwer.
Berlin, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus Berliner Privatbesitz, 1915, no. 17, as Brouwer.