Jan Baptist Weenix

Possibly Adriaen de Waert, Amsterdam, by 1695;

Possibly anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Jan Pietersz. Zomer, 8 October 1700, lot 21;

Possibly Aletta (Alida) de Waert (1652-1710), Amsterdam;

Maria Feitama (1733-1793), Amsterdam;

Her estate sale, on the premises at her home on the Herengracht, Amsterdam, 2 April 1794, lot 53 (“[...] fix en meesterlyk gepenfeeld; zynde dit stukje van een fraaye uitweking”);¹

Where acquired by “Posthumus”, for 84 florins;

S.J. Stinstra, Harlingen;

His estate sale, Amsterdam, Jeronimo de Vries, Albertus Brondgeest, Engelbert Michael Engelberts, and Cornelis François Roos, 22 May 1822, lot 187 (“Alles is bijzonder breed en meesterlijk geschilderd”);²

Where acquired by De Boer, for 28 florins;

Anonymous sale, London, Phillips, 16 May 1836, lot 144;

S.M. de Boer, Amsterdam;

His estate sale, Amsterdam, Jeronimo de Vries, Albertus Brondgeest, Engelbert Michael Engelberts, and Cornelis François Roos, 15 April 1840, lot 71 (“snel verlicht en meesterlijk geschilderd”);³

Where acquired by “Lammen”, for 76 florins;

With Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Berlin, by April 1929;

With Galerie van Diemen and Co., Amsterdam, by July 1929;

With Galerie van Diemen and Co., Berlin, by 1933;

With Gallery Dr. R. Schloessmann, Berlin, by 1933;

Probably with Dr. Hermann Burg, Cologne;

Private collection, Germany, by 1960;

Anonymous sale, Stuttgart, Nagel, 23 September 1981, lot 985;

Offered anonymously, London, Sotheby's, 9 March 1983, lot 75, where unsold;

Thereafter acquired by the present collector, by 1984.

Berlin, Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Die Meister des holländischen Interieurs, April - May 1929, no. 105a;

Philadelphia Museum of Art; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussisher Kulturbesitz; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting: The Age of Vermeer and De Hooch, 18 March - 18 November 1984, no. 124 (lent by Anne W. Lowenthal);

New York, National Academy of Design, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections, 1988, no. 58 (lent by Anne W. Lowenthal);

New York, National Academy of Design, Paintings from New York Private Collections, 2007 (lent by Anne W. Lowenthal).

G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, met derzelver prijzen zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt, benevens een Verzameling van Lysten van Verscheyden nog in wezen zynde Cabinetten, The Hague 1752, vol. I, p. 60, cat. no. 21 (“Een Vrouwtje met een Kindje, van de Oude Weninkx”);

Possibly A. Bredius, Künstler-Inventare, The Hague 1917, vol. III, p. 857, cat. no. 55;

Possibly A. Bredius, Künstler-Inventare, The Hague 1917, vol. IV, p. 1238, cat. no. 30;

Die Meister des holländischen Interieurs, exhibition catalogue, K. Erasmus (ed.), Berlin 1929, n.p., cat. no. 105a;

W. Stechow, “Jan Baptist Weenix”, in Art Quarterly 181 (1948), pp. 186, 197, note 7;

E. Plietzsch, Holländische und Flämische Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1960 (and subsequent eds.), p. 139, reproduced fig. 238;

R.J. Ginnings, “The Art of Jan Baptist and Jan Weenix”, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware 1970, p. 116, cat. no. 10;

P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, New York 1980, p. 45, reproduced fig. 45;

Weltkunst 16 (15 August 1981), p. 2245, reproduced;

P. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting: The Age of Vermeer and De Hooch, exhibition catalogue, P. Sutton (ed.), Philadelphia 1984, p. 355, cat. no. 124, reproduced pl. 48;

E. Haverkamp-Begemann and A. Jensen Adams, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, p. 138, cat. no. 58, reproduced p. 124;

P.C. Sutton, “Recent Patterns of Public and Private Collecting of Dutch Art”, in Great Dutch Paintings from America, exhibition catalogue, B. Broos (ed.), Zwolle 1990, pp. 114, 119, note 38;

A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, Jan Baptist Weenix, The Paintings, Zwolle 2018, vol. I, pp. 32-33, 226-227, cat. no. 100, reproduced fig. 15.