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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 4, 2012 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale | 23 | $****** - ****** | A Poultry Seller; A Gentleman Offering a Lady a Bunch Of Grapes | |||
Jun 18, 1992 | Sotheby's | Monaco | Important Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Watercolours | 42 | Estimates not disclosed | La marchande de volailles et la grappe de raisin |
paintings
27.9 x 24 cm (10.98 x 9.45 in)
both oil on oak panel
the former signed and indistinctly dated upper left: W. Van Mieris...; the latter signed and dated upper right: W. Van Mieris. fec / Anno 1707.
The pair:
Jan (1680-1771) and Pieter (1690-1758) Bisschop, Rotterdam
Purchased in 1771 from the estate of the above Jan, along with the entire picture collection, by Adrian (1709-1781) and his nephew John Hope (1737-1784), Amsterdam
By inheritance after Adrian Hope's death to John Hope, Amsterdam and The Hague
By inheritance to his sons, Thomas Hope (1769-1831), Deepdene, near Dorking, Adrian Elias Hope (1772-1834), and Henry Philip Hope (1774-1839), Bosbeek House, near Heemstede, and, as of 1794, London, where the collection was in possession of John's cousin, Henry Hope (c. 1739-1811)
By inheritance in 1811 solely to Henry Philip Hope, Amsterdam and London, but in possession of his brother, Thomas Hope, Deepdene
By inheritance in 1839 to Thomas' son, Henry Thomas Hope (1808-1862), Deepdene
By inheritance to his wife Adèle, née Bichat (d. 1884), London
By inheritance to her grandson, Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme (1866-1941), Deepdene
Charles Davis, London (by whom presumably acquired directly from the above)
His sale, London, Christie's, 3 December 1920, lot 89
Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 12 June 1936, lots 13-14, no. 5
Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 18 June 1992, lot 42, where acquired by the present owner.
The latter:
Collection of C. Reygersbergen van Cauwerven, Middelburg, 1752
His sale, Leiden, v. d. Eyk, 31 July 1765, lot 37 (bought by Bisschop for 400 florins)
The former:
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, de Leth, 11 May 1756, lot 18 (bought by Bisschop for 180 florins)
The pair:; P. Terwesten, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schildereyen...(supplement by Hoet), The Hague 1770, p. 481, no. 35 and p. 138, no. 21;; J. Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue raisonné..., London 1842, p. 54, no. 5 and p. 71, no. 59;; G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. II, London 1854, p. 118;; C. Hofstede de Groot, Catalogue raisonné..., vol. X, London 1928, pp. 151-2, no. 186, and p. 192, no. 330.; The latter:; J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. I, London 1829, p. 91, no. 6;; G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schidereyen met derzelver prysen zedert een lange reeks van Jaaren..., vol. I, The Hague 1752, p. 535;; E. Wiersum, "Het schilderijen-kabinet van Jan Bisschop te Rotterdam", in Oud Holland, no. XXVIII, 1910, p. 174
