Currently not on view
Peasant Family
Master of the Béguins, French, active 1650–1670
y1974-82
Information
Title
Peasant Family
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65 x 79.2 cm (25 9/16 x 31 3/16 in.)
frame: 82 x 101.5 x 7 cm (32 5/16 x 39 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Walter Cerf, Graduate School Class of 1941
Object Number
y1974-82
Culture
Type
Anonymous sale, Paillet, Paris, February 17, 1774, lot 64; René Fribourg [1880–1963], Paris and New York; art market, London (ca. 1972; sold to Cerf); Walter Cerf, Brandon, VT (ca. 1972–1974; gift to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Catalogue d'une collection de tableaux hollandois, flamands, italiens & françois: dont la vente commencera le jeudi 17 février 1774...chez le sieur Paillet, (Paris: Paillet, 1774)., lot 64
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1974", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 34, no. 1 (1975): p. 22-30., p. 22
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Pierre Rosenberg and John Pope-Hennessy, La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1982)
, p. 363; no. 1 (illus.) - Pierre Rosenberg, Katharine Baetjer, Mary Laing and Gretchen Wold, ""France in the Golden Age": a postscript", Metropolitan Museum Journal 17 (1982): p. 23-46., p. 42; fig. 25
- Jane Turner, The Dictionary of Art, (New York: Grove, 1996)., Vol. 20: p. 627
