Two Children playing with a Cat holding a Bird in its Jaws | Johnny Van Haeften

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Adriaen Van Der Werff
(Kralingen–Ambacht 1659 – 1722 Rotterdam)

Two Children playing with a Cat holding a Bird in its Jaws

On panel, en grisaille – 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in, (24.8 x 19.2 cm)

Provenance:

J.G. Cramer
His sale, Amsterdam, Cok, 13 or 15 November 1769, lot 18, with pendant, a woman with a dog, for 1,400 Francs
Gustaf Adolf Sparre (1746-1794), Sparre inv., 1794, no. 34
Thence by descent

Literature:

O. Granberg, Catalogue raisonné des Tableaux dans les collections privées de la Suède, 1885-6, no.66
G. Gothe, Tafelsamlingen pa Wanås, Stockholm 1895, p.29, no.73
O.Granberg, Inventaire Générale des Trésors d'Art....en

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Konstforeningens F.D. Lokal, Utställningen af alder Mästares taflor ur Svenska privatsamlinger, 1893, (catalogue by O. Granberg) no. 109
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Holländsks Mästare / Svensk Ägot, 3 March - 30 April 1967, no.174 (p.111 in the catalogue)
Kristianstad, Kristianstads Museum, Ur Gustov Adolf Sparres konstsamling på Wanås, 12 February-6 March 1977, no.43