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Jan Steen(Leiden 1626-1679)Portrait of a girl, half-length, in a mauve dress, blue wrap and flower headdress, within a painted oval
5 December 2018, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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Jan Steen (Leiden 1626-1679)
Portrait of a girl, half-length, in a mauve dress, blue wrap and flower headdress, within a painted oval
oil on canvas laid down on panel
18.2 x 16.4cm (7 3/16 x 6 7/16in).
oil on canvas laid down on panel
18.2 x 16.4cm (7 3/16 x 6 7/16in).
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Provenance
The Collection of Count F. de Robiano, Brussels
His sale, Brussels, 1 May 1837, lot 618
The Collection of Max Lindenmeyer, Basel, 1935
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1908, vol. I, p. 241, cat. no. 877
K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende werken van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, pp. 122-123, ill. fig. 263
The present work relates to a figure which comprises one of many in an original lost work by Jan Steen, which is known from two copies: one in the Louvre, acquired in 1934, oil on canvas, 99 x 83 cm.; the other on canvas, 102.5 x 85 cm., was in the last World War with Viciano Renée in Paris, was in 1948 at Kunsthandel Loebl in Paris, in the collection E. Wolff in New York (1957), at the auction L. v.d. Linden in Venlo (17 August 1961) and then in the collection Herens Kleen in Katwijk. Hofstede de Groot records the subject in a sale in Amsterdam, 13 June 1771, lot 37 (cat. no. 306), entitled Die Pfingstblume (102.5cm x 85 cm.), but it is not clear if this painting is the original painting by Jan Steen or one of the known copies.
We are grateful to Guido M.C. Jansen, former curator of Dutch 17th century painting at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, for confirming that he was shown this work and that it is in his opinion by Jan Steen.
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