Pieter Hermansz. Verelst

Oil on canvas, lined. The original canvas is separating from the newer canvas along the upper edge. The picture surface is flattened but in generally good condition with a clean varnish. Under UV light, the thick varnish fluoresces green and the picture surface cannot be read. Selective areas - the three main figure's faces, the legs of the man at right and the barrel, and parts of the architecture int he upper third of the work - have been cleaned of this green varnish.
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We are grateful to Fred Miejer for suggesting an attribution of this lot to Pieter Verelst on the basis of photographs.