LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.08 in. (51.00 cm.) (height) by 18.31 in. (46.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'K.DV .JARDIN', l.r.

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, 1835, cat. no. 68 (where lent by W. Scrope); London, Royal Academy, Burlington House, Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, 1938, cat. no. 171; London, Royal Academy, Burlington House, Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750, 1952-53, p. 87, cat. no. 461 (where lent by Nicholas Argenti); London, Wildenstein & Co., Artists in 17th Century Rome, 1955, pp. 44-45, cat. no. 37, reproduced; Rotterdam, Boymans van Beuningen Museum and Rome, Museo di Palazzo Venezia, Michael Sweerts e i Bamboccianti, 1958 (Rotterdam), cat. no. 72, reproduced; (Rome), p. 65, cat. no. 73, reproduced no. 83; Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age, June 8-July 22, 1990, pp. 124-125, cat. no. 34, reproduced.

Literature:

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London 1834, vol. V, p. 253, cat. no. 62; Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London 1842, p. 643, cat. no. 16; G. Redford, A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works of Art: 1628-1887, vol. I, London 1888, p. 103; W. Roberts, Memorials of Christie's, vol. II, London 1897, p. 173; Dr. H. Mireurs, Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art, vol. IV, Paris/Marseilles 1911, p. 51; A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, vol. I, London 1913, p. 305; H. Cannons, Art Prices Current 1922-1923, vol. II, London 1923, cat. no. 2312; C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Hollandischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, vol. IX, Esslingen/Paris 1926, p. 392, cat. no. 349; E. K. Waterhouse, "Seventeenth Century Art in Europe at Burlington House (I): The Paintings" in The Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXII, 1938, p. 4., reproduced, pl. V-c; H. Gerson, "Dutch Landscape," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCV, 1953, p. 51; E. Brochhagen, Karel Dujardin, dissertation, Cologne 1958, p. 101; E. Plietzch, Hollandische und Flamische Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1960, cat. no. 277; G. Briganti, The Bamboccianti, Rome 1983, pp. 289, 293, reproduced fig. 11.7; P.C. Sutton et al., Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, Philadephia 1984, p. xxxiv

Provenance:

Possibly M. Le Brun, Paris, circa 1790 (according to the 1810 Walsh Porter sale); Daniel Mansveld, by whom sold, Amsterdam, Van der Schley, Vinkeles, August 13, 1806, lot 82, for fl. 1220 to Van Iperen; M. Lafontaine, by whom sold, London, Christie's, June 13, 1807, lot 43, for £183, s. 15; Possibly Walsh Porter; Possibly his deceased sale, London, Christie's, April 14, 1810, lot 7, for £157, s. 10, to Mr. Barnett (as from Le Brun); Possibly George Byng, London, 1834; William Scrope, London, 1835; Spencer Lucy collection; Samson Wertheimer; His sale, London, Christie's, March 19, 1892, lot 703, for 220 gns to George Salting; George Salting, London, 1893; Asher Wertheimer; By whom sold, London, Christie's, March 9, 1923, lot 101 (as from Walsh Porter and George Byng collections); With Clements, London, 1924; Nicholas Argenti, Esq., London, 1936, until at least 1953; With Edward Speelman, London, by whom exported to U.S.A., February 1983; With French & Co., New York; From whom purchased by Saul P. Steinberg, New York in 1987; With Richard L. Feigen, New York From whom purchased by the present collector