Dirck van Delen

Heusden ca. 1605 – 1671 Arnemuiden

A palace interior with cavaliers cavorting with nuns

Oil on panel 36,5 x 49,5 cm.

Provenance
Private Collection Holland
With Brian Koetser, London 1970
Acquired by the present owner

Exhibited
London, Brian Koetser Gallery Autumn Exhibition 1970
Pp 26-7, cat.no.16

Literature
T.T.Blade The paintings of Dirck van Delen
Minnesota 1976, p 251,cat.no.103, reproduced fig.16

Note
Blade dates the picture to the early 1630’s and gives the execution of the figures to Palamedesz