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Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem 1609-1668)
Lot 81

Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem 1609-1668)

A couple drinking in an interior

Closed5 September 2007

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Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem 1609-1668)
A couple drinking in an interior
signed 'J molenaeR' (lower left)
oil on panel
20.2 x 18.8 cm.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 July 1973, lot 41 as Egbert van Heemskerck.
Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, 27 June 1974, lot 111.
with W.J. Kersbergen, Delft, 1985, from whom purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Dr. Dennis P. Weller for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (written comunication, 14 March 2007). He dates the picture to the 1640s.

The present lot is also accompanied by a letter, dated 25 September 1978, from Dr. Walther Bernt, confirming the attribution.