Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
Frans van Mieris the Elder
A young woman sealing a letter by candlelight
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January 26, 04:01 PM GMT
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1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
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Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
Frans van Mieris the Elder
Leiden 1635 - 1681
A young woman sealing a letter by candlelight
signed and dated lower right: F. van Mieris fec1667
oil on panel, with an arched top
panel: 10⅝ by 8 in.; 27 by 20.3 cm.
framed: 16⅝ by 13⅞ in.; 42.3 by 35.2 cm.
Martin Benjamin Asscher (1904-1983), before 1970;
Frans L. Jurgens, Bulkeley House, Englefield Green, Surrey;
With Otto Naumann Ltd., New York;
From whom acquired, 2002.
Frans L. Jurgens, Bulkeley House, Englefield Green, Surrey;
With Otto Naumann Ltd., New York;
From whom acquired, 2002.
O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Doornspijk 1981, vol. II, p. 131, cat. no. B10, reproduced fig. CB 10 (included under the section of "problematic attributions," an opinion subsequently revised by Naumann after examining the work firsthand);
T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Paris 1988, p. 362, under cat. no. 338 (references the version in Copenhagen, catalogued as Schalcken, but equally evocative of Eglon van der Neer or Pieter van Slingelandt);
P. Sutton, in Love Letters: Dutch Genre Painting in the Age of Vermeer, exhibition catalogue, Dublin and Greenwich 2003, pp. 136-137, cat. no. 21, reproduced (as Frans van Mieris the Elder);
Q. Buvelot, et al, Frans Van Mieris, The Hague 2005, pp. 20, 189-191, cat. no. 41, reproduced p. 190 (as the prime version by Frans van Mieris the Elder);
L. Nijkamp and Z. Benders, "Nieuw licht op een nachtstuk van Frans van Mieris," in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (2007), 55, no. 2/3, pp. 213, 217, note 20, reproduced fig. 8;
A. Waiboer, "Corresponding Love," in Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2017, pp. 114-121, cat. no. 1.6, reproduced.
T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Paris 1988, p. 362, under cat. no. 338 (references the version in Copenhagen, catalogued as Schalcken, but equally evocative of Eglon van der Neer or Pieter van Slingelandt);
P. Sutton, in Love Letters: Dutch Genre Painting in the Age of Vermeer, exhibition catalogue, Dublin and Greenwich 2003, pp. 136-137, cat. no. 21, reproduced (as Frans van Mieris the Elder);
Q. Buvelot, et al, Frans Van Mieris, The Hague 2005, pp. 20, 189-191, cat. no. 41, reproduced p. 190 (as the prime version by Frans van Mieris the Elder);
L. Nijkamp and Z. Benders, "Nieuw licht op een nachtstuk van Frans van Mieris," in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (2007), 55, no. 2/3, pp. 213, 217, note 20, reproduced fig. 8;
A. Waiboer, "Corresponding Love," in Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2017, pp. 114-121, cat. no. 1.6, reproduced.