Lot 54: Attributed to Mathijs Wulfraet , Arnhem 1648 - 1727 Amsterdam An elegant company in an interior drinking and smoking, with a violin and a music book on a table in the foreground oil on canvas

indistinctly signed with initials and dated: MW (in ligature) . f. 1686 oil on canvas

measurements note 72.3 by 79.3 cm.

Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 5 Sammler - 5 Meinungen, 8 April - 27 May 1973 (as by Jan Verkolje).

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 28 May 1963, lot 157 (as by J. Verkolje).

THIS AND THE FOLLOWING THREE LOTS ARE PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
This lovely interior scene depicts three elegantly dressed couples indulging themselves in the delights of every-day life, such as making music, drinking wine and smoking. The painting was once attributed to Jan Verkolje (1650-1693), but this attribution is no longer tenable. Fred G. Meijer of the R.K.D., The Hague, has kindly suggested a tentative attribution to Mathijs Wulfraet, the portrait and genre painter, born in Arnhem, but active in Frankfurt-am-Main. A similar interior scene, signed and dated 1694 , is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. A1912).υ1 1. See P.J.J. van Thiel, Alle schilderijen van het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam/Haarlem 1976, p. 616.