ADAM FRANS VAN DER MEULEN. 1632-1690

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Oil on canvas. 58 X 83 cm. Inv. No 2916

Signed lower center: A F V Meulen Fecit

This picture, painted still entirely in the spirit of

the Flemish tradition, belongs to the artist's early

period, i.e. before his work for Louis XIV. It may

be dated to the early 1660s.

Provenance: 1915 The Z. Yevreinova Collection, Petro-grad; since 1936 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (purchased from Bavstrup) Exhibition: 1914 Petrograd, Cat. 107a Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 51; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 90; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, P. 123

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