Live Auction 2829Old Master and 19th Century Art
Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678)
Lot 64

Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678)

An elegant couple playing cards

Closed13 October 2009

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Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678)
An elegant couple playing cards
oil on canvas
65.3 x 77.8 cm.

(Possibly) Gustav Weil, Prague, 1922.
L.S. Timken, New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1980.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 5 June 1980, lot 122.
with X. Scheidwimmer, Munich, 1988, where bought by the present owner.

Specialist note

Professor Sumowski dates the picture to the beginning of the 1670s and compares it to other works from this period such as the 'Doctor's Visit' in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. He further states that the gentleman in the present work could be a self-portrait since it is comparable to a self-portrait in van Hoogstraten's painting De muntmeesters en waardijns van de Munt van Holland te Dordrecht in the Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht.