
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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We are grateful to Marijke de Kinkelder of the RKD for confirming that the present painting is a collaboration between Roelof van Vries and his fellow-townsman, Salomon Rombouts, who painted the staffage, in a letter to the present owner, dated 17 July 2003. This is somewhat unusual since he usually did the figures in his paintings himself. She writes that the collaboration would suggest a date in the last quarter of the 17th century. She relates the compositions to two particular signed works by van Vries (oil on panel, 63 x 48 cm., Leipzig Museum) and by Salomon Rombouts (oil on panel, 79 x 107 cm. (with Xavier Scheidwimmer, Munich, 1982).