An Arcadian Landscape with a Shepherd holding a Flute, listening to a Shepherdess playing a Cittern, a Dog lying at her Feet

VP3969

Willem Van Mieris
(1662 – 1747)

Oil on panel – 12 3/4 x 17 3/16 in, (32.4 x 43.7 cm)

Signed and dated 1682, lower centre

Abraham du Pré and Petronella Oortmans-De la Court (1624-1707)
Their sale, Amsterdam, 19 May 1729, lot 8, for 73 florins
Baron von Schönborn
His sale, Amsterdam, Hol. van der Land, 16 April 1738, lot 79, for 175 florins
D. Ietswaart, his sale, Amsterdam, Beukelaar van der Land, 22 April 1749, lot 74, for 80 florins to Lubbeling
Lubbeling Collection, Amsterdam, 1752
H. Wannaar, his deceased's sale, Amsterdam, De Leth, 17 May 1757, lot 19
J. van der H..., his sale, Soeterwou (near Leiden), Delfos/De Bruyn 11 Sept 1776, lot 6
Cardinal Joseph Fesch, Archbishop of Lyon (1763 - 1839)
His deceased's sale, Rome, George, 17 March 1845, lot 150, for 375 scudi
With Edward Speelman, London
From whom acquired by the late father of the previous owners in 1961

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes unk kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke…, vol. X, Stuttgart and Paris 1928, p. 184, no. 298