Live Auction 3055Old Masters & 19th century Art - (including Dutch Impressionism)
Circle of G. Denis (active 1642)
Lot 8

Circle of G. Denis (active 1642)

A boy de-fleaing a dog

Closed24 June 2015

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EUR 3,000

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Circle of G. Denis (active 1642)
A boy de-fleaing a dog
indistinctly dated ? (lower centre)
oil on panel, oval
18 x 13.6 cm.

Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, where acquired by J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, inv. no. 1624, as Domenicus van Tol, likely before March 1926.
Looted from the above by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Emil Alfred Kummerlé, Brandenburg (purchased 7 August 1942 for Dfl. 800); inherited by Johanna Kummerlé;
Transferred to the government of East Germany on 26 March 1954;
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, from March 1954 onwards, inv. no. 1492, as G. Denis and also as Attributed to Domenicus van Tol;
Returned to the Netherlands by the government of Germany on 4 March 2012;
In the custody of the Dutch Government, inv. NK 3750;
Restituted to the heir of J. Goudstikker in October 2013.

Specialist note

An almost identical composition, octagonal, signed and dated 'G. denis / 1642', was offered with Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 September 2007, lot 82. The artist G. Denis is unknown, but he was likely to have been inspired by Gerard Terborch's painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich or one of its contemporary copies. A second copy is listed as being in St. Pieters- en Bloklands-Gasthuizen, Amersfoort.