European Furniture & Decorative Arts

Provenance:

Sold: Amsterdam, 16 September 1739, Lot 131 (as Van Noordt, Een Vrouw met Kinderjtes, Verbeeldende de Liefde, heel konstig)

Sold: Christie's, London, John R. Clayton et al. sale, 30 January 1914, Lot 98 (as The Madonna and Child, with the Infant Saint John and Two Children in a Landscape, by J. van Noordt, signed and dated 1695, 47 ½ x 41 in.)

Leger Gallery, London, acquired from the above sale

Erich Gallery, New York

Sold: New York, Anderson Galleries, Erich Gallery sale, 12 November 1924, Lot 23 (as signed and dated 1645, 49 x 42 in.)

Sold: New York, Parke-Bernet, Robert Cluett, Jr. et al sale, 24 November 1939, Lot 72 (as signed and dated lower-right: JAN V. NOORDT 1645, 48 ½ x 42 in.)

Sold: New York, Parke-Bernet, Henry Rogers Benjamin sale, 15-17 May 1947, Lot 235 (as signed and dated 1645, 48 ½ x 41 ½ in.)

A.R. Lunde, New York

Alfred Bader Fine Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, November 1985

Literature:

Albert Blankert, et al., Gods, Saints, and Heroes: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt, Washington/Amsterdam, 1980, p. 212

Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Pfalz/Landau, 1983-94, vol. 5, no. 2141, p. 3112, illus. (as Caritas); vol. 6, with no. 2403a, p. 3737

Werner Sumowski, "Paintings by Jan van Noordt," The Hoosteder-Naumann Mercury, p. 21

David A. de Witt, Jan Van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam, Montreal, 2007, no. 24, pp. 19; 109; 119-120; 133-134; 144; 152; 170; 279, illus.

Note:

According to David A. de Witt, the original canvas measured 47 ½ x 41 inches. At some point after 1947, the composition was trimmed to its current size, removing the signature and date.