Old Master Paintings

PIETER VAN DER LEEUW | MERCURY AND ARGUS

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September 23, 01:58 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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PIETER VAN DER LEEUW

Dordrecht 1647 - 1679

MERCURY AND ARGUS

signed and dated lower right: P. van der Leeuw. f. 1669.

oil on oak panel, an unidentified collector's black wax seal on the reverse

unframed: 47.1 x 69.5 cm.; 18½ x 27⅜ in.

framed: 63.6 x 85.7 cm.; 25 x 33⅝ in.

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Walter Leake of Hunstanton, Norwich, 1914 (according to a label on the reverse);

I.C. Morrison Esq.;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 16 January 1963, lot 24, to Frensch;

Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 9 December 1966, lot 114;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 May 1967, lot 117.