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Property from a Private Collection
FRENCH SCHOOL, 1640S | THE INTERIOR OF AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, WITH THREE FIGURES
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July 29, 12:32 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection
FRENCH SCHOOL, 1640S
THE INTERIOR OF AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, WITH THREE FIGURES
oil on canvas
unframed: 49.4 x 54.7 cm.; 19½ x 21½ in.
framed: 72.8 x 78.2 cm.; 28⅝ x 30¾ in.
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Lord Delamere;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 19 May 1939, lot 105 (as Michael Sweerts), to Agnew;
In the collection of the family of the present owner since the 1950s
R. Kultzen, Michael Sweerts (1624–1664), doctoral diss., Hamburg 1954, p. 29, cat. no. 109 (under Rejected Attributions);
M.R. Waddingham, 'The Sweerts Exhibition in Rotterdam', in Paragone Arte, vol. 107, November 1958, pp. 68–69, reproduced fig. 20 (as Sweerts);
R. Kultzen, Michael Sweerts, Doornspijk 1996, p. 136, cat. no. R1, reproduced fig. 157 (under Rejected Attributions).
We are grateful to Dr Fred G. Meijer for suggesting the painting to have been executed by an artist working in France, probably Paris, in the 1640s. Although previously attributed to Michael Sweerts, the objects depicted and the clothes of the figures, as well as the palette of the painting, suggest a French, rather than Dutch, hand.