Pieter Jansz. Quast (1606-1647)

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Pieter Jansz. Quast (1606-1647)

The Madonna, Saint John and Mary Magdalene at the foot of the
Cross

signed and dated: PQ (linked) 1633, on panel
52 x 42.5 cm

Provenance

G.J. Nederpelt, Schiedam, circa 1915
C.H. Schwagerman, Schiedam, circa 1922, from whom purchased by the present owner

Literature

A. Bredius, Künstler Inventare, I, 1915, pp. 273/274,
with ill.

Lot Essay

An inventory of Pieter Quast's posessions made in 1632 lists several unfinished pictures of religious subjects, among which was a 'Christus aen 't Cruys' which according to Bredius (loc.cit) should be identified with the present lot

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