Willem Buytewech

Merry Company



Willem Buytewech - Merry Company



Willem Buytewech
Merry Company
c. 1616/17
71.6 x 94.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Literature

Collection catalogues
Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Berlin, 1975, pp. 75-76

Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 16
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 420-421



Provenance

Luis Augosto Ferreira de Almeida, Visconde de Carvalhido, Paris (his seal on the verso; probably in his catalogue, 1865, nr. 56 [as Jacob Duck or Anthonie Palamedesz])
probably his sale, Paris, 14-15 March 1870 (Lugt 31833), nr. 51 (as Jacob Duck)
Camillo Castiglione, Vienna, until 1925
his sale, Amsterdam (Frederik Muller), 17-20 November 1925 (Lugt 89243), nr. 54 (as Willem Buytewech; unsold)
his sale, Berlin (Paul Graupe), 28-29 November 1930, nr. 42 (to Rohde)
Kurt Rohde, Berlin, 1930-1950
his heirs, 1950-2018 (on long-term loan to the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 1958-2016)
acquired with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, 2018
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External links

Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 1218

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Willem Buytewech Elegant Couples Courting
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