Quiringh van Brekelenkam
The Spinner
165348.3 x 64.1 cm
Oil on wood
Signed and dated on spinning wheel: Q V B 1653
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, 1871
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 23
Provenance
Cropley Ashley Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury, Saint Giles's House, Wimborne, Dorset, until died 1851
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 15 May 1852, nr. 18
baron de Heusch, château de l'Andweck, until 1870
posthumous sale, Étienne Le Roy and Victor Le Roy, Brussels, 9-10 May 1870, nr. 4 to Le Roy
with Étienne Le Roy, Brussels, through Léon Gauchez, Paris, 1870, sold to Blodgett
William T. Blodgett, Paris and New York, 1870–71, sold half share to Johnston
William T. Blodgett, New York, and John Taylor Johnston, New York, 1871, sold to MMA
Other works by Quiringh van Brekelenkam
Old woman praying
The Maternity Visit
c. 1665
c. 1665
Shoemaker
c. 1660
c. 1660
The Vegatable Stall
1665
1665
Scene at an Inn
1661
1661