Follower of Pieter Jacobs Codde
(Dutch, 1599-1678)
Interior of an Inn
oil on panel
14 x 18 1/4 inches.
Estimate $ 1,000-2,000
Property from the Estate of a Chicago Area Collector
Provenance:
Henry W. Kent (1866-1948), Cleveland
By bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948
Sold: Sotheby's, New York, January 28, 2011, Lot 29
Exhibited:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute of Art, Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Paintings in Europe, 1500-1900, October 14-December 12, 1954, no. 32 (as Codde)
Akron, Ohio, Akron Art Institute, Dutch Seventeenth Century Paintings and Drawings, October 10-November 11, 1956, no. 9 (as Codde)
Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, Tobacco and Smoking in Art, October 14-December 4, 1960, no. XVIII (as Codde)
Literature:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings: Part Three. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, Cleveland, 1982, pp. 226-227, no. 96, reproduced (as Codde)
P.C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids, 1986, pp. 68, 334 (as Guardroom Scene and described as "dubious")
A. Chong, European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue, Cleveland, 1993, p. 40, reproduced (as Follower of)
1 inch crack to panel in upper left corner; pindot accretion in upper left quadrant; 7 inch horizontal crack to panel in center right; Under UV, 3 x 2 inch area in center, around seated man's head; strokes of retouch along noted crack in center right; several isoltaed strokes of retouch throughout; strokes of retouch along upper edge, possibly due to frame abrasions.
Framed: 22 x 26 3/4 inches.