Pieter Jansz. Quast

The Triumph of Folly: Brutus Playing the Fool before King Tarquinius



Pieter Jansz. Quast - The Triumph of Folly: Brutus Playing the Fool before King Tarquinius



Pieter Jansz. Quast
The Triumph of Folly: Brutus Playing the Fool before King Tarquinius
1643
69 x 99.2 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated lower right, on the base of a pilaster: PQ 1643
(PQ in ligature)
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Provenance


Sale Paris, 22 January 1879 (Lugt 38900), nr. 39 (230 guilders and 50 cents)
purchased, 1879
on long-term loan to the Theatermuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. 195), 1959-2014 (this loan proceeded via the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, until 2013)
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External links


Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 447

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