PIETER DE BLOOT | Beggars gathering outside a convent

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 25 October 1946, lot 117 (as Droochsloot);

With Duits, London;

Anonymous sale, The Hague, Venduehuis der Notarissen, 20-22 April 1993, lot 35 (as de Bloot, signed and dated 164?);

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 15 April 1999, lot 3 (as Droochsloot, and signed and dated Dr...sloot / 1641);

With Wieg, Amsterdam, by 2003 (as de Bloot).

Pieter de Bloot was born in Rotterdam in 1601. His work mostly consists of landscape and genre paintings and is reminiscent of the style of Adriaen Brouwer, David Teniers and Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot, to whom the present work was previously attributed.