JOOS VAN CRAESBEECK | A couple drinking wine

Anonymous sale, Berlin, Leo Spik, 18 March 1976, lot 247, where acquired.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 2, Genre, Münster/Hamburg/London 1996, pp. 90-93, cat. no. 20, reproduced in colour;

K. de Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck 1605/06 - ca. 1660. Een Brabants Genreschilder, Turnhout 2006, vol. I, pp. 156-58, cat. no. A40, reproduced vol. II, p. 476, fig. 40;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 89, cat. no. 80, reproduced in colour.

Oelde, Rathaus, Niederländische Originalgemälde der Zeitgenossen Rembrandt Harmesz. van Rijn, 30 November – 17 December 1983;

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 80.

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