JOOS VAN CRAESBEECK | A couple drinking wine

Anonymous sale, Berlin, Leo Spik, 18 March 1976, lot 247, where acquired.

Oelde, Rathaus, Niederländische Originalgemälde der Zeitgenossen Rembrandt Harmesz. van Rijn, 30 November – 17 December 1983;

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 80.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 2, Genre, Münster/Hamburg/London 1996, pp. 90-93, cat. no. 20, reproduced in colour;

K. de Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck 1605/06 - ca. 1660. Een Brabants Genreschilder, Turnhout 2006, vol. I, pp. 156-58, cat. no. A40, reproduced vol. II, p. 476, fig. 40;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 89, cat. no. 80, reproduced in colour.