Quiringh van Brekelenkam
Sentimental Conversation
early 1660s41.3 x 35.2 cm
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 24
Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 119
Provenance
Lady Wantage, Lockinge, London
E.A. Leatham, Miserden Park, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in 1868
with Sir George Donaldson, London
August de Ridder, Schönberg, near Cronberg in the Taunus, until died 1911
on loan to the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, in 1913
sale of his sequestered property, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2 June 1924, nr. 7 to Kleinberger
with Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 1924, sold to Friedsam
Michael Friedsam, New York, 1924–died 1931
Other works by Quiringh van Brekelenkam
The Tailor's Workshop
1661
1661
Old shoemaker with a spining woman
Old woman praying
The Maternity Visit
c. 1665
c. 1665
The Spinner
1653
1653