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Boors drinking and smoking at a table in a farmyard with a peasant woman and children by a pump beyond
Details
Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704)
Boors drinking and smoking at a table in a farmyard with a peasant woman and children by a pump beyond
signed and dated centre right Cordusart 1684
oil on panel, unframed
47.7 x 37.4 cm
Boors drinking and smoking at a table in a farmyard with a peasant woman and children by a pump beyond
signed and dated centre right Cordusart 1684
oil on panel, unframed
47.7 x 37.4 cm
Provenance
Sir Joshua Reynolds (according to the inscription on the engraving by J. Browne, but not included in the Reynolds Sale, Christie's London, 11-14 March 1795)
For further provenance see under lot 130
For further provenance see under lot 130
Engraved
by John Browne, published by William Woollett in 1767 entitled 'The jocund peasants'
by Etienne Achille Reveil in Musée de peinture et de sculpture ou Recueil des principaux tableaux, 1830, IX, cat.no.621 ("Joshua Reynolds (...) avait placé dans son cabinet ce charmant tableau, remarquable par une couleur des plus vraies et un effet des plus piquant").
by Etienne Achille Reveil in Musée de peinture et de sculpture ou Recueil des principaux tableaux, 1830, IX, cat.no.621 ("Joshua Reynolds (...) avait placé dans son cabinet ce charmant tableau, remarquable par une couleur des plus vraies et un effet des plus piquant").