Attributed to Samuel van Hoogstraten

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 324
Bredius 367 (as Rembrandt)
Bauch 507
Gerson 248
Bredius/Gerson 367
Tümpel A57 (Rembrandt workshop)
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler III, Landau/Pfalz, 1986, nr. 1326 (as Nicolaes Maes)
Krempel F9 (attributed to Samuel van Hoogstraten)
Giltaij 402 (Rembrandt workshop)

Literature
Thijs Weststeijn, The visible world, Amsterdam, 2008, fig. 55
Jennifer Scott and Helen Hillzard, Rembrandt's Light, London, 2019, fig. 10

Exhibitions

1991 Rembrandt: the Master & his Workshop, Nr. 72

Provenance

De Gueffier, Paris
sold Paillet, Paris, 1 March 1791, nr. 67
François-Antoine Robit, Paris
sale Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, May 11 and following, 1801, nr. 120 to Lafontaine as an agent for Michael Bryan
George Hibbert, London ([Hibbert and Sir Simon Clarke supplied the funds for Bryan’s extensive purchases at the Robit sale and retained many of the pictures)
sale, Christie’s London, 13 1829, nr. 68, bought in
by descent to Nathaniel Hibbert, until until 1875
by descent to A. Holland Hibbert
sold by him to Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885), San Donato, 1880
sale Florence, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, March 15-April 10, 1880, nr. 1114, engraved, bought in
by descent to Princess Demidoff (formerly Princess Lise Troubetzkoi), 1885
sold through Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1890, as part of a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, with funds advanced by Martin A. Ryerson and other trustees of the Art Institute, the cost of 1894.1022 was re-imbursed by Ryerson

External links

RKD 52041
Art Institute Chicago Accession number 1894.1022

Other works by Samuel van Hoogstraten

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
1649

Girl with a letter
c. 1660/65

Trompe-l'oeil
1664

Letter Board

Trompe-l'oeil Still Life with a Drawing and a Genre Painting