ID 1436609
Lot 129 | JAN STEEN (LEIDEN 1626-1679)
Valeur estimée
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Prayer before a meal
signed 'JSteen' ('JS' linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 22 ½ in. (46 x 57.2 cm.)
Provenance
Harriet, Lady Wantage (1837-1920), wife of Robert James Lindsay, subsequently Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Lord Wantage, V.C., K.C.B. (1832-1901), Lockinge House, Berkshire.
A. von Keller, Hamburg; his deceased sale, Rudolf Bangel, Frankfurt-am-Main, 17 May 1904, lot 83.
Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London.
André de Ridder, Cronberg (1868-1921); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2 June 1924, lot 70, to Lugt.
Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London, by 1934.
with D. Katz, Dieren, by 1937.
Private collection, Switzerland, by 1942.
with Leonard Koetser, London, by 1947 and where acquired in 1964 by the following,
Private collection, and by descent until,
[Property from a Family Collection]; Christie's, London, 5 July 2018, lot 5, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, etc., I, London, 1908, pp. 101-102, no. 383a, 'from the description it seems of very doubtful authenticity'.
W.V. Bode, The Collection of Pictures of the late Herr. A. de Ridder in his Villa at Schönberg near Cronberg in the Taunus, Berlin, 1913, pp.17 and 47, no. 30.
A. Bredius, Jan Steen, Amsterdam, 1926, III, pp. 62-63, fig. 64, as 'a magnificent work'.
Advertisement, The Connoisseur, October 1963, vol. 154, p. xlii.
Advertisement, Die Weltkunst, April 1964, p. 236, illustrated.
Advertisement, The Connoisseur, April 1964, p. lvi, illustrated.
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', The Burlington Magazine, April 1964, p. 193, fig. 61.
L.D. Vries, Jan Steen ' de Kluchtschilder, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Groningen, 1977, pp. 36-37 and 157, no. 38.
K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, p. 169, no. B-105, as a rejected work.
P.C. Sutton and M.H. Butler, 'The Life and Art of Jan Steen', Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, LXXVIII, Winter 1982-Spring 1983, p. 31, under note 7.
Exhibited
Dieren, D. Katz, Tentoonstelling van Belangrijke 16e en 17e Eeuwsche Hollandsche Schilderijen, 3 July-15 September 1937, no. 93.
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Meisterwerke holländischer Malerei des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts im Kunstmuseum, 23 June-19 August 1945, no. 91.
London, Leonard Koetser Ltd., Twelfth Annual Spring Exhibition of Flemish, Dutch and Italian Old Masters, 18 March-18 May 1964, no. 15.
| Artiste: | Jan Havickszoon Steen (1626 - 1679) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile sur toile |
| Genre: | Art de genre |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Europe, Les Pays-Bas |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
| Artiste: | Jan Havickszoon Steen (1626 - 1679) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile sur toile |
| Genre: | Art de genre |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Europe, Les Pays-Bas |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
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