Drinking Bout in a Tavern, Adriaen Brouwer (manner of), c. 1700

…; ? anonymous sale [Armand-Fredéric-Ernest de Nogaret (1734-1806)], Paris (A.C. Chariot and J.-B.P. Lebrun), 2 June 1780 _sqq_., no. 15 (‘ADRIEN BRAUWER. L’Intérieur d’une Tabagie. On y voit un personnage principal vuidant un pot de bierre en présence de huit autres assis autour d’une table, qui ont les yeux fixés sur lui: dans le coin à droite, & auprès d’une cheminée, sont deux hommes & une femme, un troisième paroît dans le fond, debout sur le seuil d’une porte en arcade qui est ouverte […] Hauteur 13 pouces, Largeur 18 pouces [35.2 x 48.8 cm] B.’), frs. 999.19, to the dealer Alexandre-Joseph Paillet;{Copy RKD.}…; collection Maurice Kann (1839-1906), Paris, before 1908;{In his posthumous collection when published by Schmidt-Degener (F. Schmidt-Degener, ‘Adriaen Brouwer en de ontwikkeling zijner kunst’, _Onze Kunst_ 13 (1908), pp. 5-11, fig. opp. p. 53), but not in his posthumous sale, Paris (Petit), 9 June 1911. Schmidt-Degener (idem, p. 52) credited Bode with recognising Brouwer’s authorship.}…; sale, Dr James Simon (1851-1932, Berlin), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 October 1927, no. 7, as by Adriaen Brouwer, to Isaac de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife Johanna Geertruida van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern; by whom donated to the museum, with a life interest, December 1961; on loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2002-10

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