Lot Essay
The preliminary study for this, in the same sense, is in the Institut Néerlandais, Fondation Custodia, Paris (Schnackenburg, op.cit., no. 205). The related signed watercolour, also in the same sense, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Schnackenburg, op.cit., no. 206). A picture, signed and dated 1667, with a closely comparable composition also in this sense but without the child in front of the doorway, was offered at Christie's, London, 8 July 1994, lot 82, illustrated. Schnackenburg dates this plate to after 1670, confirmed by Slatkes who dates it to circa 1671-9.