File:Jan Steen - Country Wedding - WGA21711.jpg
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| Upload date | 2015-10-09T19:37:42Z |
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Summary
Jan Steen: A Wedding Feast
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| Title |
Mery company in an inn |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | genre art | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Between 1662 and 1666 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 105.4 cm (41.4 in); width: 149.9 cm (59 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Private collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of creation | Haarlem | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
by 18 April 1735: Marinus de Jeude, The Hague
18 April 1735: sale of the collection of Marinus de Jeude at an unknown auction house, The Hague, lot no. 24, for NLG 130 (as ‘Een heerlyk Stuk, verbeeldende een Bruyloft, ryk geordonert en uytvoerig geſchildert, door Jan Steen, h. 40 d. br. 57 d.’) 24 April 1737: anonymous sale at an unknown auction house, The Hague, lot no. 7, for NLG 140 20 June 1810: anonymous sale at an unknown auction house, The Hague Yperen Unknown date: acquired by Héris, Brussels Unknown date: acquired by Lemaître, Paris 5 March 1874: sale of the collection of Lemaître at Hôtel Drouot, Paris (as signed and dated 1677) Unknown date: acquired by Emil Goldschmidt, Frankfurt 27 April 1909: sale of the collection of Emil Goldschmidt at Lepke's, Berlin, lot no. 38, for DM 22,000 (as signed in monogram and dated 1677) Unknown date: acquired by Susskind, Amsterdam or Stockholm With Schaeffer Galleries, New York City by 1934: Swiss art market3 July 1963: purchased by De Boer at an anonymous sale at Sotheby's, London (auction house), lot no. 77, for GBP 2,800 (as signed in monogram and dated 1677) |
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| Exhibition history |
Oude Kunst- en Antiekbeurs der Vereniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland, Museum "Het Prinsenhof", Delft, 24 June 1965–14 July 1965. |
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| Inscriptions |
Signature bottom right:
JSteen
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| References |
RKDimages, Art-work number 197241, as Country wedding, 1662-1666, height: 105.4 cm (41.4 in); width: 149.9 cm (59 in)
Web Gallery of Art, as Country Wedding, 1662-1666, height: 105 cm (41.3 in); width: 150 cm (59 in). Sotheby's, as A country wedding, height: 105.4 cm (41.4 in); width: 149.9 cm (59 in). |
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| Source/Photographer | www.sothebys.com : Home : Info | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
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