Lot 3: MICHIEL VAN MUSSCHER

ROTTERDAM 1645 - 1705 AMSTERDAM
AN INTERIOR SCENE WITH EVA VISSCHER, THE ARTIST'S WIFE, WITH A CHILD IN HER LAP AND ANOTHER CHILD IN A COT, BESIDE THEM A DOG
signed and dated lower left: MυL v: Musscher. Pinxt:/ A: 1683. υ3_υ/30
oil on canvas
50 by 41.4 cm.; 19 3/4 by 16 1/4 in.

G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderijen met derzelver Prysen zedert den 22. Augusti 1752 tot den 21. November 1768, The Hague 1752-1770, vol. I, p. 89 (the date of the Van Musscher sale wrongly given as the 12th April 1706), & possibly vol. 1, p. 205 (the Jonas Witsen sale);
S. Nijstad, Saam's Trio, Deventer 2009, pp. 27-32, reproduced in colour p. 28.

In the collection of the artist, Michiel van Musscher;
His sale, Amsterdam, J.P. Zomer, 21 April 1706, lot 1, as "A woman with a child on her lap, another sitting in a cradle (artfully painted) by M.v.Musscher.";
Possibly Jonas Witsen;
His deceased sale, Amsterdam, 23 March 1717, lot 7 ("A woman with two little children in a room");
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Schley, 13 July 1812, lot 74;
Duc d'Arenberg;
With Martin Asscher by 1958 (both the above according to Witt Library mounts);
Acquired by Saam and Lily Nijstad before 1990.