(1626 Leiden 1679)

Travellers resting before a village. Circa 1640-49.

Oil on canvas.

Signed lower right: JSteen.

56.5 x 46.2 cm.

Provenance:
- Pieter Oets & Co. Auction., Amsterdam, 31.1.1791, Lot 5.
- Sotheby's, London, 2.7.1986, Lot 160.
- Private collection, Munich, 1996.
- Kaupp auction, Sulzburg, 9.10.2013, Lot 4434.
- Swiss private collection.

Literature:
- Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Teil 1, Esslingen/Paris 1907, fig. 41.
- Kirschenbaum, B.: The religious and historical paintings of Jan Steen, New York 1977, p. 129, No. 41.
- Braun, K.: Alle tot nu toe bekende schildeijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam 1980, p. 144, fig. A-41.

Registered at RKD, The Hague as by the hand of Jan Steen.