JAN VAN BIJLERT
57 1/2 x 77 3/4 in.
Provenance
Baron Michele Angelo Lazzaroni (1863 – 1934), Villa Madeleine, Nice; and by inheritance to his brother
Baron Edgardo Lazzaroni (b. 1892), Palazzo Lazzaroni, Rome;
His Sale; Maître J.J. Terris, Nice, 16-21 June 1952, lot 125 (as ‘école flamande XVIIe’);
Anon. Sale; Palais des Congrès, Versailles, 27 May 1979, lot 40 (as ‘École Flamande du XVIIe Siècle’);
Private Collection, Paris, acquired from the above sale;
Private Collection, San Francisco, by descent from the above;
Private Collection, UK.
Exhibitions
On loan to the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, 2021.
Literature
G.J. Hoogewerff, ‘Jan van Bijlert: Schilder van Utrecht (1598 – 1671)’, Oud Holland, Amsterdam, vol. LXXX, 1965, p. 26, no. 29b (as a replica);
P. Huys Janssen, in A. Blankert & L. J. Skates (eds.), Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht, exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht & Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, 1986-87, p. 204, no. 42.1 (as another version of no. 42);
P.H. Janssen, Jan van Bijlert, 1597/98 – 1671, Amsterdam, 1998, p. 127, no. 68.1 (as a replica);
The work is recorded on the RKD database as by van Bijlert: https://rkd.nl/images/202111