Dirck Hals and Dirck van Delen

Mr. N.J.W. Smallenburg van Stellendam, The Hague, by 1872;

Thence by descent to his wife, née Thooft, The Hague;

Thence by descent until sold (“les successions Mme Vve Mr N.J.W. Smallenburg van Stellendam – née Thooft de La Haye”), Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 6 May 1913, lot 39 (as Hals, described as “Le plus important tableau de la succession – Smallenburg”);

Probably where acquired by August Janssen (1863-1918), Amsterdam, for 15,000 Dutch guilders;

From whose estate, together with the entire Janssen collection, acquired by Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1919;

Sarah Saavedra Guani de Hirsch (1916-1997), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie’s, 29 January 1998, lot 17 (as Hals and van Delen);

With Richard Green, London, 1999;

From whom acquired.

Tentoonstelling van zeldzame en belangrijke Schilderijen van Oude Meesters. In de kunstzalen der maatschappij “Arti et Amicitiae,” exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1872, p. 13, cat. no. 81 (as Hals);

Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters in de zalen van het gothische Paleis in het Noordeinde, exhibition catalogue, The Hague 1881, p. 22, cat. no. 146 (as Hals);

La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, exhibition catalogue, The Hague 1919, cat. no. 48, reproduced (as Hals);

La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen 1920, cat. no. 47 (as Hals);

T. Blade, The Paintings of Dirck van Delen, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota 1976, pp. 30, 130, 133-136, 220, cat. no. 29, reproduced fig. 20 (as Hals and van Delen);

P. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, P. Sutton (ed.), Philadelphia 1984, p. 206 note 7 (as Hals and van Delen);

R. Trnek, Die Holländischen Gemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien, Vienna 1992, pp. 169-170, reproduced fig. 57b (as Hals and van Delen);

B. Vermet, "Tableaux de Dirck van Delen (v. 1604/1605-1671) dans les musées français," in Revue du Louvre 43, no. 3 (1995), p. 34, under cat. no. 25 (as Hals and van Bassen);

B. Nehlsen-Marten, Dirck Hals 1591-1656, Oeuvre und Entwicklung eines Haarlemer Genremalers, Weimar 2003, p. 312, cat. no. 355, reproduced fig. 197 (as Hals and van Delen);

M. Sitt, in Satire en vermaak, Schilderkunst in der 17e eeuw: Het genrestuk van Frans Hals en zijn tijdgenoten 1610-1670, exhibition catalogue, P. Biesboer and M. Sitt, (eds.), Zwolle 2003, p. 102, cat. no. 14, reproduced (as Hals and van Delen);

B.M. Vermet, "On the Relations Between Bartholomeus van Bassen and Dirck van Delen and the Role of Their Personal Contact," in A Challenge for Painted Architecture in Early Modern Times, Architecture on Canvas and Fresco Painting, S. Frommel and P. Lombaerde (eds.), Turnhout 2024, pp. 312-313, reproduced fig. 5 (as Hals and Bartholomeus van Bassen);

B.M. Vermet, Dirck van Delen, een zeeuwse meester uit de Gouden Eeuw , exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 2024, pp. 46-50, reproduced figs. 440, 460 (as Hals and van Bassen).

Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Tentoonstelling van zeldzame en belangrijke Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, 1872, no. 81;

The Hague, Palais Noordeinde, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, 1881, no. 46;

The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, 1890, no. 36;

The Hague, Pulchri Studio, La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, November 1919, no. 48;

Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, January – February 1920, no. 47;

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum; Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Satire en vermaak, Het genrestuk van Frans Hals en zijn tijdgenoten 1610-1670, 20 September 2003 – 16 May 2004, no. 14.