Nicolaes Maes
Woman Plucking a Duck
c. 1655-5659.7 x 66 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: N. MAES (first three letters of last name ligated)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler III, Landau/Pfalz, 1986, nr. 1351
Krempel D32
Collection catalogues
Peter C. Sutton, Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1990, nr. 66
Literature
Peter Marijnissen, Wim de Paus, Peter Schoon, George Schweitzer (redactie), De Zichtbaere Werelt, Zwolle, 1992, p. 89, fig. 1
Mariët Westermann, Art & home, Zwolle, 2001, fig. 16
Exhibitions
2001 Art and Home, Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, Nr. 45
1990 Great Dutch Paintings in America, Nr. 41
Provenance
Sale Comte de Turenne, Paris, 17 May 1852, nr. 44 to Nieuwenhuys
with Nieuwenhuys
sale Adrian Hope, Christie's, London, 39 June 1894, nr. 39 to Sedelmeyer
with Sedelmeyer, Paris
Jules Porgès, Paris
A. de Ridder, Schönberg near Cronberg, 1910
with F. kleinberger, Paris and New York
sale A. de Ridder, Paris, 2 June 1924, nr. 38
with D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, by 1928
with J. Duveen, New York
Mrs. Gordon A. Hardwick
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Other works by Nicolaes Maes
Old woman in prayer
Old woman with a bible
Young Woman Peeling Apples
The sacrifice of Abraham
c. 1653-54
c. 1653-54
Self portrait