Live Auction 3047Old Masters, 19th Century and Impressionist Art
Jacob van Spreeuwen (Leiden 1609/10-after 1650)
Lot 78

Jacob van Spreeuwen (Leiden 1609/10-after 1650)

A music merchant surrounded by a group of villagers in front of a farm house

Closed14 May 2014

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Jacob van Spreeuwen (Leiden 1609/10-after 1650)
A music merchant surrounded by a group of villagers in front of a farm house
oil on panel
59.2 x 81.2 cm.

Collection Albert Grossman, Brombach; His sale, Helbing, Munich, 30 October 1902, lot 154, as Jan Victors.
with Kunsthandel H.v.d. Ploeg, before 1929, as Jan Victors.
with H. Abels, Cologne, 1937, as I. v. Ostade and J. Victors.
with Paech, Amsterdam, before 1940, as G. Dou.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for endorsing the attribution to Jacob van Spreeuwen upon personal inspection of the original.
The landscape of the present composition may have been executed by a different artist, possibly in the circle of Jan van Goyen.