
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Sold for £42,750 inc. premium
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Provenance
The Collection of John Newington Hughes, 1829, no. 83
Friedrich Schwarz, by whom sold in 1913 to
Dr Leon Lilienfeld, Vienna, and by descent to the present owner
Literature
T. van Westrheene, Jan Steen: Étude sur l'Art en Hollande, The Hague, 1856, p. 126, no. 120
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1829, pp. 44/5, no. 135
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the most eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1907, vol. I, p. 129, no. 484
G. Glück, Niederländische Gemälde aus der Sammlung des Herrn Dr. Leon Lilienfeld in Wien, Vienna, 1917, no. 68
Please note the additional literature for this lot: K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, B-136 (as a rejected work) We are grateful to Wouter Kloek for confirming the attribution to Jan Steen and suggesting date of circa 1654, upon inspection of colour photographs. Please also note that the signature is strengthened.