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    • Frans van Mieris II (Leiden 16
    Lot 164

    Frans van Mieris II (Leiden 1689-1763)

    A man and a woman in a grocer's shop, with fish in a woven basket and scales on a stone ledge sculpted with putti, with a basket of walnuts, a sack of peas, a barrel of dates

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    GBP 51,650

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    GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000

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    Frans van Mieris II (Leiden 1689-1763)
    A man and a woman in a grocer's shop, with fish in a woven basket and scales on a stone ledge sculpted with putti, with a basket of walnuts, a sack of peas, a barrel of dates
    oil on panel
    16 x 13 3/8 in. (40.7 x 33.9 cm.)

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    Lot Essay

    We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for confirming the attribution, on the basis of images.

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    Saleroom Notice

    Please note the following additional information on this painting:

    PROVENANCE:
    Nieuwenhuys.
    Robert Napier, West Shandon, Dunbartonshire; his sale (+), Christie's, London, 14 April 1877, lot 604, as 'W. Mieris' (90 gns. to Brown), and by descent to the present owner.

    EXHIBITED:
    Manchester, Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 1057, as 'Frans van Mieris'.

    LITERATURE:
    J.C. Robinson, Catalogue of the Works of Art forming the collection of Robert Napier, of West Shandon, 1865, p. 45, no. 442, as 'Willem van Mieris'.
    C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné etc., X, London, 1928, p. 156, no. 199b, as 'Willem van Mieris'.


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