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Lot Essay
The artist is not recorded. One other picture, a copy after Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, is in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (H. Pauwels et.al., Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Inventarisatiecatalogus van de oude schilderkunst, p.149, no.4145, ill.). The prototype of the present lot is now probably lost. The composition is recorded in another copy, sold in the F. Burton Sale, Antwerp, 14 March 1927, lot 18, as H. Hals (W. Schulz, Cornelis Saftleven 1607-1681, Leben und Werke, etc., 1978, p.244, no.699D).