Willem Cornelisz Duyster

A musical party

Auction Closed

December 6, 06:47 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Deceased’s Estate

Willem Cornelisz Duyster

Amsterdam 1599–1635

A musical party

oil on panel

unframed: 39.9 x 63.3 cm.; 15¾ x 24⅞ in.

framed: 59.8 x 82.3 cm.; 23½ x 32⅜ in.

We are grateful to Marieke de Winkel who dates this painting to 1629, on the basis of the styles and types of hats and collars of the figures.

Lenglart collection, Lille, by 1901;

L. Jacobs-Havenith collection, Antwerp;

J. Jacobs van Merlen collection, Veere, the Netherlands;

Anonymous sale ('Greif'), London, Sotheby's, 12 December 1984, lot 63, for £82,000;

Private collection, Florida;

With Colnaghi, London, 2003;

With David Wade Fine Art, Yorkshire;

Where acquired.

London, Colnaghi, Old Master Paintings and Drawings, 2003, no. 9.

C. Hofstede de Groot, ‘Kritische opmerkingen omtrent oud-Hollandsche schilderijen in onze musea: II’, Oud Holland, vol. 19, no. 3, 1901, pp. 135–6;

P.C. Sutton, 'Recent Patterns of Public and Private Collecting of Dutch Art', in B. Broos (ed.), Great Dutch Paintings from America, exh. cat., San Francisco and The Hague 1990, p. 115, reproduced fig. 17;

P.C. Sutton, 'Willem Cornelisz. Duyster, Musical Company', in Colnaghi: Old Master Paintings and Drawings , exh. cat., London 2003, pp. 44–47, no. 9, reproduced in colour.