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Property of a Distinguished East Coast Collector

Job Adriaensz. Berckheyde

Interior with a Man Smoking a Pipe, a Woman Reading, and a Man with a Violin

Auction Closed

May 22, 04:23 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Distinguished East Coast Collector

Job Adriaensz. Berckheyde

Haarlem 1630 - 1693

Interior with a Man Smoking a Pipe, a Woman Reading, and a Man with a Violin


signed center left: J BerckHeyde

oil on panel

panel: 16 ⅛ by 13 ⅛ in.; 40.9 by 33.3 cm.

framed: 25 ⅛ by 22 in.; 63.8 by 55.9 cm.

Tronchin collection, Château de Bessinge, near Geneva;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Loudmer-Poulain, 28 June 1980, lot 131;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 1989, lot 81;

Anonymous sale, New York, Doyle, 24 May 2017, lot 53;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Although best known for his cityscapes, Berckheyde deployed his talents in a variety of genres including church interiors, still lifes, and genre scenes recalling those of his Haarlem contemporaries Adriaen van Ostade and Jan Steen.