Willem van Mieris

Hermit Praying in the Wilderness



Willem van Mieris - Hermit Praying in the Wilderness



Willem van Mieris
Hermit Praying in the Wilderness
1707
21 x 17.4 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and indistinctly dated in dark paint, upper right corner: W. Van. Mieris, Fe Ano 1707
The Leiden Collection, New York


Provenance

Jacques de Roore
his sale, The Hague, 4 September 1747, nr. 104 (£153, together with nr. 105, Mary Magdalene, as its pendant, to Van Spangen)
John van Spangen
his sale, London, 12 February 1748, nr. 73 (for £43.1)
Philippus van der Land
his sale, Amsterdam, 22 May 1776, nr. 55 (for 180 florins, together with nr. 54, Mary Magdalene, as its pendant)
Charles Alexander de Calonne
his sale, Skinner and Dyke, London, 23 March 1795, nr. 37 (for £48.6)
Edward Atkinson, Fowey
his sale, London, 9 March 1912, nr. 163
possibly Major Forbes Fraser
his sale, London, 21 November 1924, nr. 120
possibly sale, Christie’s, London, 14 July 1961, nr. 60
private collection, South America
with Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York, 1992; to Bert van Deun, 1993
Bert van Deun, Belgium, 1993
with Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York, 2004
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2004
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External links

Leiden Collection, New York Accession number WM-100

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