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Matthijs Naiveu Leiden bapt 1647 - 1726 Amsterdam
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Description
- Matthijs Naiveu
- Nocturnal scene with a harlequin surprising a merry company in a curtained interior
indistinctly signed lower left: M Nai..../...
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Scudamore Griffiths (1968-1968), Bedfont House, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, by whom bought shortly after the First World War;
Thence by descent.
Catalogue Note
Although formerly attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck, this is a typical work by Naiveu, dating from well after his move from Leiden to Amsterdam in 1678. The subject is a scene from a play or a harlequinade, as the curtains that frame the scene suggest.