Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde 1605/6 - 1638 Antwerp)
The Three Singers
oil on panel
28,5 x 22,5 cm
Provenance
Collection J. B. van Lancker, his sale Antwerp, 18/8/1835,
lot 41 as “Adriaen Brouwer”, acquired by “Pardieu Paris” for 130;
Collection Dr E. Sklarz, London;
Collection Georges Édouard Warneck, Paris;
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 27-28/5/1926, lot 20 "Adriaen Brouwer… un des meilleurs du maître", sold to Lugt (F 105,000) for J. W. Nienhuys;
Collection J.W. Nienhuys, Bloemendaal-Aerdenhout;
Thence by descent.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts (Band 3), Esslingen, 1910, p. 611, n°62b;
E. J.Reynolds, Some Brouwer Problems, Lausanne, 1931, p.49-50, ill. 24;
Karolien de Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck (1605/06-ca.1660), een Brabants genreschilder, Turnhout, 2006, p. 209, as Adriaen Brouwer, p. 208-210, n° A76, ill. 186;
J.F. Heijbroek, Fritz Lugt - 1884-1970 Living for Art, Paris, 2012, p.199, footnote 119.