Lot 72: Jacob Ochtervelt (Rotterdam 1634-1682 Amsterdam)

A musical party in an interior oil on canvas 33 x 261/2 in. (83.8 x 67.3 cm.) PROVENANCE Lichnowski collection. P. Cassirer, Amsterdam, 1927-8. with Galerie Fleischmann, Munich, 1929-30. B. Mont, New York, 1950. with Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1955. Jefferson Patterson, by whom gifted to the Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, in 1960. LITERATURE E. Plietzsch, 'Jacob Ochtervelt', Pantheon, August 1937, XX, p. 368, fig. 3. The Dayton Art Institute Annual Report, 1959-60, p. 10, no. 60.9, illustrated. E. Plietzsch, Holl„ndische und fl„mische Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1960, p. 65, fig. 1. S.D. Kuretsky, The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt, Montclair, 1979, p. 95, no. 102, fig. 115. NOTES Kuretsky ( loc. cit. ) dates the present picture on technical grounds and from the use of classical sculpture to late in the artist's career, in circa 1680. As she points out, the dog in the foreground recurs in the artist's Music Lesson in the National Gallery, London, and the seated woman on the right is adapted from the singer in the Concert in a Garden in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.