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Jacob de Wit
Description
- Jacob de Wit
- putti playing and drinking from an urn; putti disporting beneath a statue of Bacchus
- a pair, both signed and dated (one lower centre, one lower right): JdWit/1752 (JdW in ligature)
- both oil on panel, en grisaille
- Each: 24.9 by 60.9 cm
Provenance
Prince Joseph Wenzel I of Liechtenstein (1696-1772), Herrengassengalerie, Vienna, no. 166.
Literature
J. Dallinger von Dalling, Description des Tableaux, et des Pièces de Sculpture, que renferme la Gallerie de son Altesse François Joseph Chef et Prince Regnant de la Maison de Liechtenstein, Vienna 1780, p. 60, no. 155;
Sammlungskatalog, Manuscript; 1805, no. 211;
J. Falke, Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1873, p. 91, no. 787;
J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1885, p. 77, no. 565;
A. Woltmann - K. Woermann, Geschichte der Malerei, Vol. III, Leipzig 1888, p. 1000f.;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Vol. II, Vienna and Leipzig 1910, p. 891;
A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1931, p. 113, no. 565;
D.M.A. Staring, Jacob de Wit 1695-1754, Amsterdam 1958, pp. 79, 156.
Condition
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