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3072

Jan Miense Molenaer

1610 – Haarlem – 1668

Grace Before the Meal. 1640/60

Oil on oak. 47,3 x 63,6 cm (18 ⅝ x 25 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Jan Miense Molenaer. Grace Before the Meal. 1640/60.

Estimate:

EUR 20,000

 

- 25,000

USD 22,300

 

- 27,900

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on oak. 47,3 x 63,6 cm (18 ⅝ x 25 in.). Monogrammed on the barrel: IW / on the reverse remains of a seal, and in black paint: G. D. / in brown paint: 3 / label: No P X X 1. Artist: Jan Miense Molenaer. Collection Mrs Vincent Baxendale, Blackmore End Herts. Panel plates secured through dovetailing. Framed. Framed

Related literature: Dennis P. Weller: Jan Miense Molenaer. Painter of the Dutch gold Age, exh. cat., Hudson Hills Press 2002 / Wayne Franit: The family saying grace. A theme in Dutch art of the seventeenth century, in: Simiolus, vol. 16, no. 1 1986, p. 36–49.

Comparable works: Jan Miense Molenaer: Gebed voor de maaltijd, 26 x 22 cm, oil on copper, KMSKA Antwerp / Het gebed voor de maaltijd, 28,5 x 25, oil on plate, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-C-188.

We would like to thank Dennis Weller, North Carolina Museum of Art, for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs..

Collection Gertrude Mary Vincent, born Baxendale (1863-1922), Blackmore End, Hertfordshire, England / art dealer Konrad Strauß, Berlin / 1928 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / 1938-43 deposited with Elisabeth Berbig, Dresden / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: inventory picture list (1950) no. 85 (1928), previous owner "Strauss“, 2.300 RM / book inventory no. 293, 2.300 RM ("Jan Miense Molenaer, Interieur“)