An old woman seated in an interior, holding a glass of wine, fish on a plate, pears in a bowl, onions and bread on a bench nearby

The present lot is a further addition to the small oeuvre of the Leyden painter. To be compared with a painting, signed and dated 1742, sold in these rooms, 6 May 1996, lot 84 (DFL. 3.500), and with a painting of identical subject with a similar jug and split herring, recorded in the RKD, The Hague

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