Lot Essay
Probably the brother and pupil of Jacob Willemsz de Wet (c.1610-after 1675), Gerrit closely followed the latter's style; compare J.W. de Wet's painting of the same subject dated three years earlier in the Museo Nacional de Arte Antigua, Lisbon (see W. Sumowki, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, IV, 1983, no. 1838).