Peasants and a soldier eating and conversing

Details

Follower of Karel Dujardin
Peasants and a soldier eating and conversing
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 31 in. (73.4 x 78.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris.
with Van Diemen and Company, 1927.
with Mathiesen Gallery, London.
Martin Breslauer, London, 1957, and by descent to the late owner.

Literature

J. Kilian, Karel du Jardin (1626-1678): A Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam, 2005, no. 74 c.

Exhibited

London, West's Galleries, Old masters of continental schools: summer exhibition, 1939, no. 13.

Lot Essay

The present work is a copy after the original, formerly in the Choiseul collection, Paris and now in the Musée du Louvre. Another version by Dujardin is in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.

Dr. Kilian has suggested an attribution to Dujardin's pupil, Erick van den Weerelt or Wilkes (born circa 1648) who is known to have made copies of his master's larger figurative works.

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