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MICHAEL SWEERTS (BRUSSELS 1618-1664 GOA)

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£ 150 000
Auction dateClassic
07.12.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 1086641
Lot 34 | MICHAEL SWEERTS (BRUSSELS 1618-1664 GOA)
MICHAEL SWEERTS (BRUSSELS 1618-1664 GOA)

A lady sewing lace in an interior

oil on canvas

19 ½ x 15 ½ in. (49.5 x 39.4 cm.)





Provenance

William Sharp Ogden (1845-1926), architect and historian; (†) Christie's, London, 6 December 1926, lot 54 (230 gns. to the following),

with A.H. Buttery, London, 1926.

Mrs. Holdbrooke, Bladon Castle, Burton-on-Trent; Christie's, London, 17 February 1939, lot 143, where acquired for 52 gns. by the following,

with W. Sabin, London.

John T. Dorrance, Jr. (1919-1989); Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1990, lot 12.

with Colnaghi, London, by 1992, by whom sold to,

Professor Nelson Goodman (1906-1998), Massachusetts.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 67, where acquired for $112,500 by the following,

Anonymous sale [Property of a Distinguished Private Collector]; Christie's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 10, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

R. Kultzen, Michiel Sweerts, Ph.D. dissertation, Hamburg, 1954, p. 45, no. 122.

R. Longhi, 'Qualche appunto su Michele Sweerts', Paragone, IX, 1958, p. 74, no. 107, fig. 30.

R. Kultzen, Michiel Sweerts, Doornspijk, 1996, p. 135, no. D6, fig. 150, under 'doubtful attributions', on the basis of an old photograph.

J. Bikker, 'The Deutz Brothers, Italian Paintings and Michiel Sweerts: New Information from Elisabeth Coymans's "Journael"', Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, 1998, XXVI, no. 4, p. 299, fig. 18.



Exhibited

Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, An offbeat American Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, November 1993-January 1994, no. 18.

Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1995-1996, on loan (lent by Nelson Goodman).
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