Ascagnes and Lucelle (The Music Lesson)

Provenance

Possibly (sale, Willem Fabricius, Haarlem, 19 August 1749, no. 26).[1]Richard M. Foster, Clewer Manor, near Windsor, Berkshire;[2] his son, Edmund Benson Foster [1830-1862], Clewer Manor; (Richard Foster's estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 3 June 1876, no. 1, as _The Guitar Lesson_); Samuel Addington [1806-1886], London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 May 1886, no. 107, as _The Guitar Lesson_); Davis.[3] Sir Julian Goldsmid [1838-1896]; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 13 June 1896, no. 82, as _The Guitar Lesson_). (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris). Baron Michael Ephrussi [1845-1914], Paris; purchased 1900 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Mariët Westermann, _The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century_, Zwolle, 1997: 98-99, 127 n. 47. [2] According to William Roberts (_Memorials of Christie's: A Record of Art Sales from 1766 to 1896, Volume 1_, London, 1897: 253), the Clewer Manor collection was "formed by three generations of the Foster family." [3] Samuel Addington to Davis is recorded by C. Hofstede de Groot, _Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts_, Esslingen am Neckar, 1907: 96, no. 415. A copy of the sale catalogue in the NGA Library is annotated with the name "Davis" (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Ascagnes and Lucelle (The Music Lesson)

Steen, Jan

1667

Accession Number

2014.136.45

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 62.1 × 52 cm (24 7/16 × 20 1/2 in.) | framed: 86.04 × 75.57 × 10.16 cm (33 7/8 × 29 3/4 × 4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)