Currently not on view
Bathers,
after 1617
formerly attributed to David Vinckboons, Dutch, 1576–before 1633
edge, women bathe and gossip, while exotic birds strut and a pet monkey turns from his snack, mimicking the ladies turning away from the jewels spread out beside them. This is a Northern daydream of the dolce far niente (pleasurable idleness). It may also reflect a fantasy about the lives of Italian women, here imagined as secluded as if in a harem.
Information
after 1617
Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle (1782-1846); Hendrik Steengracht van Oosterland (1808-1875); Hendrik Adolf Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (1836-1912; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 10, 1913, Lot 14); Schutz? [1]
Marie-Thérèse, comtesse de la Béraudière (née Brocheton, 1866–1958; her sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, December 11–13, 1930, Lot 283). Mr. Thomas G. Cook (1882-1965) and Mrs. Thomas G. Cook (née Grace Bigelow Tracy, 1888-1981); 1971 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
[1]: Name inscribed in copy of auction catalogue held in the Library of MFA Boston
formerly attributed to David Vinckboons, Dutch, 1576–before 1633
- Important oil paintings: [December 12-13, 1930]: with outstanding examples by Velasquez, Goya, El Greco, Brueghel, Luttichuys, Bouts, Fabritius, Mierevelt, Romney, Greuze, Roslin, Satin-Aubin, Deshayes. Fine French furniture of the eighteenth century..., (New York: American Art Association; Anderson Galleries, 1930)., no. 283
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"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1971," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 31 no. 1 (1972): p. 20-32.
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