Lot 66: Attributed to Jan Baptist Weenix , Amsterdam 1621 - 1659/61 De Haar Portrait of a young girl, in a landscape, three quarter length, wearing a red hat oil on canvas

oil on canvas

measurements note 62.5 by 53.2 cm.

Keimer, Cologne, 1979;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 22-24 November 1979, lot 116 (as Haarlem School, 17th Century).

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the R.K.D., The Hague, for suggesting an attribution to Jan Baptist Weenix on the basis of photographs. This lovely portrait of a young peasant girl may be compared with the artist's Portrait of a Young Girl as a Shepherdess, in Musée de Picardie (inv. no. M.P. Lav. 1894.62).υ1 1. See J.B. Bedaux and R. Ekkart (eds.), Kinderen op hun mooist. Het Kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 2000, pp. 206-7, cat. no. 52, reproduced.