JACOB TOORENVLIET | A seated couple drinking wine 

Possibly anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 4-5 November 1908, lot 52;

Acquired for the present collection during the 1970s.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 2, Genre, Münster/Hamburg/London 1996, pp. 242-43, cat. no. 60, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 52, cat. no. 30, reproduced in colour.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 30.

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Toorenvliet likely completed the present painting in the decade leading up to his admission to the artist's guild in Amsterdam in 1686. Here, two figures are seated before a stone wall around a wooden table. Behind the male figure at left, who with his left hand reaches for the chin of the female beside him and raises a glass in his right, is an evening vista. Great detail has been used to render the still life of melons and fruit on the table, the costumes of the two figures, as well as their lively expressions that suggest that they are engaged in conversation.

For further biographical details, please see Lot 30.