Jan Havicksz. Steen Leiden 1626 - 1679

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Description

Jan Havicksz. Steen
an interior with figures playing tric-trac
signed lower centre: JSteen
oil on panel

Provenance

Miss C. E. Younge, London(?),
By whom sold, London, Christie's 22 November 1902, lot 26;
Sir W.Cuthbert Quilter, Bt., London(?),
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 9 July 1909, lot 117, bought by Agnews;
With Sedelmeyer Galleries, Paris, 1911;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 April 1976, lot 87.

Exhibited

Paris, Sedelmeyer Galleries, Illustrated catalogue of the eleventh series of 100 paintings by old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English Schools, being a portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1911-12, p. 46, cat. no. 40, reproduced plate 47.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Esslingen/Paris, vol. I, 1907, no. 725a;
K. Braun, Jan Steen, Rotterdam 1980, p. 127, cat. no. 286, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

According to Braun this work is datable to circa 1667 (see Literature below).