Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

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Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne

A quack pulling teeth

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Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne

A quack pulling teeth


bears signature and date on the paper centre right: ADriaan / V venne / Hager / 1631

oil on oak panel

unframed: 51.2 x 39.3 cm.; 20⅛ x 15½ in.

framed: 63 x 52.3 cm.; 24⅞ x 20⅝ in.

With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, after 1945;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D494), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
Olomouc, Olomouc Museum of Art, 1993-2021, on loan.
L. Machytka, Nizozemské malířství ve sbírkách olomoucké oblasti, 2 vols, unpublished dissertation, Olomouc 1970, vol. II, pp. 377-78;
L. Machytka, Obrazy nizozemskýchí malířů na Olomoucku. Okresní archiv v Olomouci 1987, Olomouc 1988, p. 50;
L. Machytka and G. Elbelová (eds), Netherlandish Painting of the 16th-18th centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. II, Olomouc 2000, pp. 142-43, no. 103, reproduced p. 142 (as Adriaen van de Venne). 

This painting is after the prime version by Adriaen van de Venne in the Muzeum Brukenthal in Sibiu, Romania.1 The composition is based on an earlier engraving by Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533).


1 See L.J. Bol, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne: Painter and Draughtsman, Doornspijk 1989, p. 95, reproduced fig. 84.