Lot 436
  • 436

Willem van Mieris Leiden 1662 - 1747

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Willem van Mieris
  • Joseph and Potifar's Wife
  • signed and dated lower right (under the left arm of Joseph) W. Van Mieris Fe .... 1694
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Juda van Benjamin Sr., Amsterdam, November 4, 1782, no. 27;
With a French art dealer before 1842;
Anonymous sale, Paris, March 22, 1845, no. 20;
De St. Remy sale, Paris, April 26, 1870, no. 104;
S. Weiner sale, Vienna, February 16, 1903, no. 37;
M.G. sale, Paris, March 22, 1922; 
Sir Cuthbert Quilter collection;
Sir Cuthbert Quilter sale, London, Christie's, June 26, 1936, lot 36;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, July 23, 1965, lot 15 where purchased by Leger Galleries for $647;
With Leger Galleries, London;
Sol Sardinsky collection, Philadelphia.



 


 

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan from Sol Sardinsky.

Literature

J. Smith, Supplement of a catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London 1829-1842,  p. 65 cat. o. 40;
H. de Groot, Holländische Maler, Stuttgart-Paris 1928, p. 109 cat. no. 9.