Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler III, Landau/Pfalz, 1986, nr. 1313
Krempel A1

Collection catalogues
Homan Potterton, Dutch seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1986, pp. 89-90, fig. 102

Provenance

possibly W. Smits and others sale, The Hague, 18 May 1785, lot 175 (as Lastman)
bt. Carré
Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House by 1846
his sale, 26 July-30 August 1859, lot 160
bt. P. Norton
J.C. Robinson sale, Paris, 7-8 May 1868, lot 29
Thoré Burger sale, Paris, 5 December 1892, lot 29
bt. Bourgeois
from whom purchased by The National Gallery of Ireland, 1894
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Iconclass

96A18211 Vertumnus, in the guise of an old woman, wooing Pomona

Other works by Nicolaes Maes

Woman spinning

The adoration of the shepherds
1658

Old woman in prayer

Portrait of a lady

Woman Plucking a Duck
c. 1655-56