HENDRIK GERRITSZ. POT | A BROTHEL SCENE
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8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
HENDRIK GERRITSZ. POT
Amsterdam 1580/81 - 1657
A BROTHEL SCENE
oil on oak panel, possibly reduced to an octagon
unframed: 33.8 x 43.3 cm.; 13¼ x 17 in.
framed: 45 x 54.5 cm.; 17¾ x 21½ in.
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Sale, Munich, Ruef, 1972, when acquired.
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 137.
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H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Genre. Niederländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhundert der SØR Rusche Sammlung, vol. II, Münster 1996, pp. 202–05, cat. no. 49, reproduced in colour;
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 125, cat. no. 137, reproduced in colour.
Another version of this composition by Pot is in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art. [1]
1. D.R. Barnes and P.G. Rose et al., Matters of Taste, Food and Drink in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch art and life, Syracuse 2002, p. 112, cat. no. 42, reproduced p. 113.