Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde 1605/6 - 1638 Antwerp) (attributed)
Four Peasants making merry in a Tavern
oil on panel
28,4 x 20,2 cm
Provenance
Sale, P.A.J. Knijff, Antwerp, 18 July 1785, lot 304 (22 florins 10, to Huybrechts);
The Collection of Adolf Schloss, Paris;
With Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1898;
The Collection of Rodolph Kann, Paris, 1907;
With Duveen Brothers, London, 1907 (all of the above according to literature);
The Collection of Marcus Kappel, Berlin by 1914;
Possibly, The Collection of Dr. E.R. Rathenau, Charlottenburg, 1931 (according to a label on the frame at the time of the 2014 sale);
The Ettlinger Collection, by 1950s, and by descent until
Sale, Bonhams, London, 13 December 2000, lot 86;
With Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam;
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 April 2014, lot 783;
The Collection of Adolf Schloss, Paris;
With Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1898;
The Collection of Rodolph Kann, Paris, 1907;
With Duveen Brothers, London, 1907 (all of the above according to literature);
The Collection of Marcus Kappel, Berlin by 1914;
Possibly, The Collection of Dr. E.R. Rathenau, Charlottenburg, 1931 (according to a label on the frame at the time of the 2014 sale);
The Ettlinger Collection, by 1950s, and by descent until
Sale, Bonhams, London, 13 December 2000, lot 86;
With Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam;
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 April 2014, lot 783;
Private collection, UK.
Exhibitions
On loan to the York City Art Gallery, 1951 - 1961.Literature
C. de Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1910, vol. III, p.608, no. 129 (as 'The Reckoning');
W. von Bode, Die Gemäldesammlung Marcus Kappel in Berlin, Berlin, 1914, no. 37, ill. (as 'Das Quartett').