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Lot 55
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Jan Miense Molenaer Haarlem circa 1610 - 1668

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Description

  • Jan Miense Molenaer
  • an amorous couple in an inn with other figures drinking and playing cards in the background

  • traces of a signature lower left: Jmo..a

  • oil on panel

Provenance

A. Kay, Edinburgh;
With J. Vellen, Heerlen, by 1979;
With J. van Rijn, Maastricht, by 1982;
With Noortman, Maastricht, by 1986;
Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 1 June 1987, lot 23, where bought by the present owner.

Literature

Advertisement in: Tableau, 5, no. 1, September-October 1982, p. 11, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Bears an old inventory number on the reverse: 92.

We are grateful to Dr. Dennis P. Weller for confirming the attribution to Jan Miense Molenaer on the basis of photographs. He dates it to the 1640s or slightly later.