Provenance:

Ex Collection Wagner de Wit Foundation, Maastricht

Description:

Gerrit Lundens was a Dutch master of genre scenes, miniature portrait and Vanitas paintings. He was born in Amsterdam and married Agniet Matthijs from Antwerp in 1643 in the village of Sloterdijk, nowadays a part of Amsterdam.

He is famous for his copy of the Night Watch by Rembrandt, a painting now in the collection of the National Gallery in London.

We are grateful to Dr. Fred Meijer for his attribution to Gerrit Lundens in 2002. He dated this work to around 1655.