Object number2005.31
Peasants Merrymaking in a Tavern
DateNd
Artist
Jan Miense Molenaer
(Dutch, c. 1610–1668)
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsFramed: 25 1/4 x 29 3/4 in. (64.14 x 75.57 cm)
Image: 14 1/4 x 18 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (36.2 x 47.63 x 4.45 cm)
Image: 14 1/4 x 18 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (36.2 x 47.63 x 4.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mary Ellen Weisl Rudolph, class of 1961 and Jane Rudolph Woods, class of 1998
On View
Not on viewPeriod17th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (recto, at center on table, painted): Molenaer
InscribedInscribed (on panel verso, yellowed brittle and loose paper label): Jan Miense Molenaer. 1605. Haarlem 1668 / Peasants Merrymaking / An interior with many peasants eating and drinking around a table, earhenware vessels on either side; behind to the left, a man enters through a door. A dog and a cat sit in the foreground. / Panel 14 5/8 x 19 3/4” (37x50cm). Signed / From the collection of Dame Leila Paget. GBE, Soames House, Surrey. (on verso, stampled in black): 142 / Molinaer
ProvenancePurchased from Richard Gray Gallery, ChicagoVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial," April 11 - June 29, 2014
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