Online Auction 19030Old Master Paintings and Sculpture
Herman van der Mijn (Amsterdam 1684-1741 London)
Lot 1PROPERTY OF CAPTAIN CHARLES E. WALTON, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

Herman van der Mijn (Amsterdam 1684-1741 London)

Venus and Ceres

Closed19 June 2020

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Herman van der Mijn (Amsterdam 1684-1741 London)
Venus and Ceres
oil on panel
20 ¼ x 16 ¾ in. (51.5 x 42.2 cm.)
stamped on the reverse with two unidentified wax seals

M. Didot; his sale, Lacoste, Cibé and Henry, Paris, 6-9 April 1825, lot 56, as 'Willem van Mieris'.
Sir Joseph Hawley, 3rd Bt. (1813-1875); (†) Christie's, London, 27 March 1876, lot 106, as 'W. Mieris' (27 gns. to Smith & Son).
H.C. Erhardt; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 22 June 1931, lot 219, as 'Mieris' (2 gns. to Joseph).
Private collection, Las Vegas, from whom acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Following his studies with the still life painter Ernst Stuven, Herman van der Mijn served as court painter to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, in Düsseldorf from 1713 until 1716. In addition to still lifes, van der Mijn painted portraits, genre subjects and history paintings. This recently rediscovered painting is an exceptional example of the artist's work and likely dates to circa 1720 on account of its similarity with the Woman with a dog dated 1719 in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and its probable pendant depicting Tamar (Sotheby's, New York, 29-30 January 2009, lot 176).

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