Woman Sewing beside a Cradle

Origine

Possibly identical with a painting in the sale of Jacob Dissius, Amsterdam, 16 May 1696 (Lugt 162), no. 17 (56 guilders); probably Johan Steyn, Haarlem; his sale, Haarlem, 28 April 1711 (Lugt 229), no. 9 (50 guilders); Joan Hendrik van Heemskerk, The Hague; his widow, the dowager Van Heemskerk, The Hague; her sale, The Hague, 29 March 1770 (Lugt 1818), no. 15 (for 854 guilders to Fouquet); Pieter Fouquet Gallery, Amsterdam, 1770; Pieter de Smeth, Lord of Alphen and Rietveld, Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, 1 August 1810 (Lugt 7842), no. 101 (for 510 guilders to Theodorus Spaan for Croese); Hendrik Croese, Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, 18 September 1811 (Lugt 8065), no. 88 (bought in for 400 guilders through ‘Van der Voort’); part of sale Amsterdam, 20 July 1812 (Lugt 8228), no. 59 (for 405 guilders to Spaan); Theodorus Spaan Gallery, Amsterdam, 1812; Casimir Pierre Périer, Paris; his sale, London, 5 May 1848 (Lugt 19009), no. 16 (bought in for 325 pound and 10 pence through ‘Watson’); his daughter, Comtesse de Ségur, née Périer, Paris; Guiraud & Fils Gallery, Paris, 1924 (for 300,000 francs to Lugt); Frits Lugt Gallery, Maartensdijk, 18 June 1925, inv. no. 2316 (sold that same month to Nienhuys); J.W. Nienhuys, Aerdenhout, 1925; his widow, A.M. Nienhuys-Versteegh, Aerdenhout; her son, J. Nienhuys, Aerdenhout, 1966-2004; bequest of J. Nienhuys, 2004