Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic
Jan Miense Molenaer
A tavern scene
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Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic
Jan Miense Molenaer
Haarlem circa 1610 - 1668
A tavern scene
signed lower right: J Molenaer
oil on panel
unframed: 31.3 x 27.4 cm.; 12⅜ x 10¾ in.
framed: 42.6 x 38.7 cm.; 16¾ x 15¼ in.
Richard Haynes, Wick House, Bristol, by 1816;
By descent to his daughter;
Sold posthumously by order of the Court of Chancery;
With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, after 1945;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D488), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
By descent to his daughter;
Sold posthumously by order of the Court of Chancery;
With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, after 1945;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D488), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
Olomouc, Oloumouc Museum of Art, 1993-2021, on loan.
V. Tomášek, Obrazárna kroměřížského zámku, Kroměříž 1964, p. 62;
L. Machytka, Nizozemské malířství ve sbírkách olomoucké oblasti, 2 vols, unpublished dissertation, Olomouc 1970, vol. II, p. 359;
A. Jirka, Vlámské a holandské malířství XVII. století z moravských sbíerk, exh. cat. Gottwaldov, Zlín 1981, no. 62;
L. Machytka, Obrazy nizozemskýchí malířů na Olomoucku. Okresní archiv v Olomouci 1987, Olomouc 1988, p. 51;
L. Machytka and G. Elbelová (eds), Netherlandish Painting of the 16th-18th centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. II, Olomouc 2000, p. 94, no. 63, reproduced p. 94.
L. Machytka, Nizozemské malířství ve sbírkách olomoucké oblasti, 2 vols, unpublished dissertation, Olomouc 1970, vol. II, p. 359;
A. Jirka, Vlámské a holandské malířství XVII. století z moravských sbíerk, exh. cat. Gottwaldov, Zlín 1981, no. 62;
L. Machytka, Obrazy nizozemskýchí malířů na Olomoucku. Okresní archiv v Olomouci 1987, Olomouc 1988, p. 51;
L. Machytka and G. Elbelová (eds), Netherlandish Painting of the 16th-18th centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. II, Olomouc 2000, p. 94, no. 63, reproduced p. 94.