Lot 239: WILLEM VAN MIERIS

LEIDEN 1662 - 1747
A YOUNG MOTHER TENDING TO HER TWO CHILDREN IN A DOMESTIC INTERIOR
signed and dated on the bed frame upper right: W. van Mieris. Fè Anno 1728
oil on panel
44.3 by 38.1 cm.; 17 1/2 by 15 in.

C. Hofstede de Groot, Verzeichnis der Werke..., vol. X, Stuttgart and Paris 1928, p. 179, no. 280.

Anonymous (Boyermans?) sale, Amsterdam, 5 June 1765, lot 19, for 305 florins to Yver;
H. van der Belen, Brussels;
By whom sold, Brussels, Le Roy, 11-12 May 1840;
J.J. Chapuis, Brussels (his seal on the reverse of the panel);
His deceased sale, Brussels, Le Roy, 4 December 1865, lot 260, for 7,500 francs to Nieuwenhuys;
Leboeuf de Montgermont Collection;
By whom anonymously sold ('Collection L. De M'), Paris, Lair-dubreuil, 16-19 June 1919, lot 198, for 10,100 francs;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 17 June 1976, lot 21, for $16,000;
With Richard Green, London, from whom purchased by an anonymous private collector at the Paris Biennale;
By whom sold ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 9 December 1994, lot 26;
With Richard Green, London;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2004, lot 18, for £100,000.