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Explore image in Artist: Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch, 1589–1662
Peasants Dancing
1655
Oil on panel
60 × 75 cm (23 5/8 × 29 1/2 in.)
Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer
2020.37.46
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Dutch
Period:
17th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Daniel Franken Dz. (1838–1898), Paris, by 1878. Sale, Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Graphics, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, April 22-23, 1980, lot 140. Sale, Old Master Pictures, Christie's, Amsterdam, June 20, 1989, lot 150. [Sale, Importants tableaux anciens et du XIXe sie`cle, Sotheby's, Monaco, December 2, 1994, lot 7 (unsold)]. Sale, Old Master Painting’s, Sotheby's, London, December 17, 1998, lot 150. With Thomas Agnew’s, London, by 1999; sold to Dr. Herbert (1910 – 2011) and Mrs. Monika (died 2019) Schaefer, Malaga, Spain, 1999; on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven., Conn., 1999–2019; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019
This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
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