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Pieter Potter (Enkhuizen 1597/1601-1652)
Lot 241 PROPERTY FROM A BELGIAN NOBLE FAMILY

Pieter Potter (Enkhuizen 1597/1601-1652)

A barn interior with a man sleeping and a woman milking a cow in the background

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Pieter Potter (Enkhuizen 1597/1601-1652)
A barn interior with a man sleeping and a woman milking a cow in the background
signed and dated 'P. Potter. f 1631.' (lower center)
oil on panel
18 ½ x 24 ¼ in. ( 47 x 61.6 cm.)

Acquired by the family of the present owner in the 18th or 19th century, and by descent.

Specialist note

Following a successful career as a Leiden glass painter, Pieter Potter, the father of the famed animal painter Paulus Potter, turned his attention in the late 1620s to easel painting. This beautifully preserved early painting is characteristic of the artist's work in the 1630s in which figures and volumetric still life elements, the latter of which recall contemporary works by his townsman Jan Davidsz. de Heem, are arranged within simple interiors.