Pieter Jansz. Quast (Amsterdam 1605-1647)
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERIC MARTIN WUNSCH
Pieter Jansz. Quast (Amsterdam 1605-1647)

A quack selling a remedy to peasants in a market

Details
Pieter Jansz. Quast (Amsterdam 1605-1647)
A quack selling a remedy to peasants in a market
signed with initials and dated 'PQ/1646', and indistinctly inscribed 'Proebatt..../op dit been of op de/...'
graphite on vellum, black ink framing lines
11½ x 14 7/8 in. (29.5 x 37.8 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 25 June 1929, lot 446.
with J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam.
E.J. Otto (L. 873b).
Henry M. Knight (1903-1970).
with H. Nijstad and T. Laurentius, Amsterdam, 1972, no. 65.
Private collection, Holland.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 25 November 1992, lot 554.
Literature
E. Hoffman, ...Yearbook, Budapest, VI, 1931, p. 205, pl. 90.

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