Lot 140
  • 140

Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot
  • Village scene with figures outside an inn
  • signed on the wooden frame of the inn: Drooch Sloot and dated on the lintel of the door: 1633
  • oil on oak panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 14 April 1978, lot 88; 
With David Koetser, Zurich, by 1979;
From whom acquired by the late owners for 80,000 Swiss francs.

Catalogue Note

At the time of the 1978 sale the bird's nest, visible on the roof of the building at the left, was painted over.