ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANNES BAECK (UTRECHT C. 1600-1654/5)

Very few works by Baeck are known today and the few signed and dated paintings by him, including the Caravaggesque Parable of the Prodigal Son (1637; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) and pair depicting a Woman with a hen and Man with a chicken and egg (1654; Centraal Museum, Utrecht) exhibit a broad stylistic range. The present painting would seem to date to the first half of the 1640s, between the painting in Vienna and an unsigned work depicting a Merry company with a man standing on a table (private collection), which has been dated to the latter 1640s.
We are grateful to Dr. Fred Meijer for his assistance cataloguing this lot.