Follower of Nicolaes Maes

A young woman plucking a duck in an interior, next to a young man at a window, with crossed arms



Follower of Nicolaes Maes - A young woman plucking a duck in an interior, next to a young man at a window, with crossed arms



Follower of Nicolaes Maes
A young woman plucking a duck in an interior, next to a young man at a window, with crossed arms
68.8 x 86.7 cm
Oil on canvas
With signature and date, centre left, on the window frame: N.MÆS 1655
Sale Christie's, London, 2 July 2025


Provenance


B. de Harde Swart et. al.; sale, de Vries, Brondgeest and Roos, Amsterdam, 16 November 1847, lot 87 (193 fl. to Thyssen [?]).
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 6 February 1897, lot 81, as 'Nicolaes Maes' (600 gns. to Colnaghi).
Ludwig Breitmeyer (d. 1930), 11 Connaught Place, London and Rushton Hall, Kettering; (†), Christie's, London, 27 June 1930, lot 56, as 'Nicolaes Maes', where acquired for 1,800 gns. by,
with W.E. Duits, Amsterdam, 1935.
with G. Douwes, Amsterdam, c. 1930.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1960, lot 69, as 'Nicolaes Maes'.
with B. Manheim Galleries, New Orleans and Dallas, by June 1973, as 'Nicolaes Maes'.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1992, lot 47, as 'Nicolaes Maes', where acquired by the present owner.
Sale Christie's, London, 2 July 2025, nr. 35

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