A theatre scene
Is leeg, of bestaat niet
MATTHIJS NAIVEU
Leiden before 1647 – 1721 Amsterdam
Provenance
Possibly, Sale Stuart, Christie’s London, 16-3-1819, lot 27 sold to John Lewis Ruttley
Galerie St.Lukas Vienna 1957
Sale Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a.o. ( private collector Palm Besach ) at
Sotheby’s NY 9-11-1985, lot 150
Sale Paul H Ganz a.o. at Christie’s New York 3-6-1987, lot 92
Michel Segoura, Paris ,supplied by Francois-Joseph Graf
Sale Koller Zürich 16-3-2005, lot 3054, repr. p.53
Private collection Switzerland
Literature
Adele-Marie Dzizaria, Entertaining genre of Matthijs Naiveu- depicting festivities and performances at the dawn of the ‘Theatre Age’. Research Master Thesis, Utrecht 2007,
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Year: Signed and dated MDCCXXI 1721
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Dimensions: 39,4 x 48,3 cm
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Techniques: Oil on panel