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A shop window with a man and a woman (study for 'The Shrimp Seller')

Maker

(artist)
1662-1747

Title

A shop window with a man and a woman (study for 'The Shrimp Seller')

Date of Production

1700 - 1747

Medium

black and white chalk on blue laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4212

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (1726-1798); William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617; J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Aono, Junko, 'Looking back to the Dutch Golden Age. Early eighteenth-century genre painting by Willem van Mieris' in 'Holland nach Rembrandt: zur niedländischen Kunst zwischen 1670 und 1750', 2006 - pp. 225-45
pp. 234-35
fig. 14 on p. 235

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre edge, erased: “[…]ano Ploos van Amstel Coll […]”. Mount (historic), Verso: lower right corner, graphite: “#3”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: William Esdaile (L.2617).

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