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Lot 3045* - A194 Old Master & 19 c. Paintings - Friday, 25. September 2020, 02.00 PM

JAN MIENSE MOLENAER

(circa 1610 Haarlem 1668)
Christ in the house of Mary and Martha.
Oil on panel.
Signed in the centre on the chair: Molenaer.
41.5 × 57 cm.

Provenance:
- Private collection, Marchese Giovanni Battista Mansi, Lucca, before 1969.
- Sale Christie's, London, 29.3.1969, Lot 21.
- With Galleria Giorgio Caretto, Turin.
- Private collection, Turin, 1969–2009.
- With Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam, 2009.
- With Galleria Caretto, Turin, 2013.
- European private collection.

Literature:
Dennis P. Weller: Jan Miense Molenaer: The Life and Art of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painter, University of Maryland 1992, pp. 97–98 and 216, fig. 34 (erroneously listed as in a Swiss private collection).

Our thanks to Dr. Dennis P. Weller for his assistance in cataloguing this painting.


CHF 20 000 / 30 000 | (€ 20 620 / 30 930)