After Jan Havicksz. Steen

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After Jan Havicksz. Steen

A doctor visiting a sick woman in her bedchamber, with a maid bringing him a glass of red wine

oil on panel
62.8 x 49.7 cm

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Van Marle, de Sille & Baan Rotterdam, 17 December 1952, lot 160, with ill. as School of Jan Steen
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's Mak van Waay Amsterdam, 31 March 1987, lot 116, where acquired by the present owner

Literature

K. Sluyterman, Huisraad en Binnenhuis in Nederland in vroegere eeuwen, 1947, p. 82, fig. 89

Lot Essay

The original, signed, on panel, 60.5 x 48.5 cm, is in the Koninklijk Kabinet voor Schilderijen het Mauritshuis, The Hague. It passed through several Dutch 18th century collections before being acquired by T.P.C. Haag at the sale of the collection of W. Lormier on 4 July 1763 on behalf of Prince Willem V.

The painting visible in the background depicts the abduction of Hippodamia. The dogs visible on the stairs in the upper right in the original have been omitted in the present lot

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