Lot 34: Dirck van Delen (Heusden 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden)

Dirck van Delen (Heusden 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden)
A palace arcade with numerous elegant figures conversing and playing games
signed and dated 'D van Delen 1634' (lower right on the base of the obelisk)
oil on panel
46.5 x 89.8 in. (118 x 228 cm.)

L'Art ancien dans les collections privées de Touraine, exhibition catalogue, Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1959. no. 32, pl. 5.
Connaissance des Arts, November 1969, p. 151, illustrated.
T.T. Blade, The paintings of Dirck van Delen, dissertation, University of Minnesota, Ann Arbor, 1976, no. 48.

Sale, J. Willemse and others, Middleburg, 16 August 1780, lot 35.
Sale, Jansen and Altman, Amsterdam, 3 March 1891, lot 26.
Marquise d'Aoust, Saint Léger (seen by C. Hofstede de Groot in 1924); his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5 June 1924, lot 22 (20,000 frs to Me Féral).
Baron Auvray, Touraine; his sale, Paris, étude Couturier Nicolay, 4 December 1968, lot 14 (38,500 frs) when acquired by the present owner.

Property from a French Private Collection

Dirck van Delen (Heusden 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden)
A palace arcade with numerous elegant figures conversing and playing games
signed and dated 'D van Delen 1634' (lower right on the base of the obelisk)
oil on panel
46.5 x 89.8 in. (118 x 228 cm.)