Follower of Pieter Neeffs II

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Follower of Pieter Neeffs II

A vaulted cellar

signed (?) (strengthened) and indistinctly dated centre right P.N./1669(?), oil on copper
16.8 x 22.5 cm

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Two other versions of the composition are known: the first, depicting Saint Peter in prison by Pieter Neeffs I and Frans Francken, signed by both artists, was in the Swiss art trade, 1956; the second, depicting the Liberation of Saint Peter, signed by Pieter Neeffs II, was in the collection of A. Tritsch, Vienna, in 1907 (photographs in the R.K.D., The Hague)

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