Frans van Mieris the Elder
A woman feeding a parrot
after 166322.5 x 17.3 cm
Oil on copper
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 210
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 262-264, plate 223
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 456
Provenance
There are various versions of this paintings, making the provenance uncertain.
probably in the collection of L.J. Gaignat by 1760
probably L.J. Gaignat sale, Paris, 14 sqq. February 1769, nr. 46, bought by Remy
according to Smith in the collection of the Prince de Talleyrand and thence bought privately in 1817 (not in the catalogue of the sale announced for 9 July 1817 nor in the list of pictures bought from the Talleyrand collection by Buchanan in 1817)
collection of William Beckford, Fonthill Abbey
catalogue of the Fonthill Abbey sale announced for 15 October 1822, nr. 105 which did not take place, Fonthill Abbey and its contents having been bought by Farquhar
Fonthill Abbey sale of 10 sqq. October 1823, nr. 200 bought by S.T. Howe, probably for (Sir) Robert Peel (Bart.)
Robert Peel by 1829
National Gallery, London, purchased with the Peel collection, 1871
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Other works by Frans van Mieris the Elder
The art of painting (Pictura)
1661
1661
Self-portrait as a painter
1667
1667
An old soldier with a pipe
c. 1655-57
c. 1655-57
The letter writer
1670
1670
The death of Lucretia
1679
1679