Willem van Mieris (1662-1747)

細節

Willem van Mieris (1662-1747)

A Grocer's Shop seen through a Casement with a Woman weighing dried Fruit and a Boy with a Tin of Sweetmeats

signed and dated 'W. van Mieris Fe Ano 1732'

on panel

15½ x 12 5/8in. (39.4 x 32cm.)

來源

The Rev. John Lucy, Hampton Lucy Rectory; (+) Christie's, 1 May 1875, lot 86, described as 'A work of the highest excellence and in the finest condition' (750gns. to Rose)
The 2nd Earl of Dudley; (+) Christie's, 25 June 1892, lot 11 (730gns. to Vokins)

出版

C. Hofstede de Groot, Verzeichnis der Werke, etc., X, 1928, p.156, no.200

拍品專文

Hofstede de Groot incorrectly identifies the present picture with one which was offered (anonymously) in these Rooms on 25 February 1905, lot 92. There is no evidence to connect the two pictures. That offered in 1905 was evidently an inferior work, to judge from the fact that it was unsold at 40 guineas, compared with the high price of 750
guineas paid for the present painting thirteen years earlier; furthermore, Vokins, who purchased the present painting in 1892, seems to have acted in the 1880s and 1890s as buying agent for an ancestor of the present owner (see the previous lot), and there is no reason to believe that it has been on the market since then.

Hofstede also tentatively identifies the present picture with his no.199 (which is Smith no.37 and Smith Supplement no.38, and not vice-versa as he states) but that was clearly a different painting