Pieter Quast
A Party of Merrymakers
c. 1635-3837.5 x 49.5 cm
Oil on wood
Signed right, on man's shirt: PQ
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Josephine Bieber, in memory of her husband, Siegfried Bieber, 1970
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 139
Provenance
Benjamin C. Smith, Paisley, Scotland (as by Vermeer)
with Art Collectors Association, London, in about 1925, as by A. Palamedesz?
?with Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Berlin, in 1929, as by Pieter Codde
?Siegfried Bieber, Berlin, later New York, by 1929–died 1960
Josephine (Mrs. Siegfried) Bieber, New York, 1960?–died 1970
Other works by Pieter Quast
Soldiers and a woman nursing a child around a fire
1639
1639
Soldiers casting dice for Christ's robe
A Man and a Woman in a Stableyard
A Standing Man
The Triumph of Folly: Brutus Playing the Fool before King Tarquinius
1643
1643