Live Auction 5860Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 114

Circle of Matthias Stomer (Amersfoort, nr Utrecht c. 1600-after ?1652 Sicily of Northern Italy)

An old lady telling beads by candlelight

Closed11 December 2009

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GBP 7,500

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Circle of Matthias Stomer (Amersfoort, nr Utrecht c. 1600-after ?1652 Sicily of Northern Italy)
An old lady telling beads by candlelight
oil on canvas, octagonal
24 7/8 x 26¾ in. (63.3 x 67.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's East, New York, 26 February 1997, lot 18, (where acquired by the present owner).

Specialist note

The present work derives from the painting by Stomer, formerly in the B. Nicolson collection (Benedict Nicolson, Carvaggism in Europe, vol III, no. 1527.)