A Monk harressing a young Kitchen Maid and offering her a glass of wine, she emptying a saucepan out of the window; parlour background with crockery on a shelf and green curtain to the right
Details
JOACHIM HENNÉ (fl. c. 1702)
A Monk harressing a young Kitchen Maid and offering her a glass of wine, she emptying a saucepan out of the window; parlour background with crockery on a shelf and green curtain to the right
signed 'heñe' (lower left)
on parchment
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 1/16 in. (113 x 78 mm.), pierced and cast Régence gilt-bronze frame
A Monk harressing a young Kitchen Maid and offering her a glass of wine, she emptying a saucepan out of the window; parlour background with crockery on a shelf and green curtain to the right
signed 'heñe' (lower left)
on parchment
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 1/16 in. (113 x 78 mm.), pierced and cast Régence gilt-bronze frame
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 29 January 1962, lot 58 (part).
Literature
D. O'Brien, Miniatures in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, London Cairo, 1951, p. 85, illustrated pl. 97, fig. 1.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 347.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 347.