Lot 32: DOMENICUS VAN TOL BODEGRAVEN CIRCA 1635 - 1676 LEYDEN

oil on panel

AN CORTEGAARDJE INTERIOR WITH TWO SOLDIERS PLAYING CARDS WITH A YOUNG WOMAN, BEHIND A RAISED TROMPE L'OEIL CURTAIN

53.2 by 41.4 cm.; 21 by 16 1/4 in.

E. Haverkamp-Begemann (ed.), Wadsworth Atheneum Painting s. Catalogue I. The Netherlands and the German Speaking Countries. Hartford 1978, p. 196, cat. no. 156, reproduced p. 67, plate 73, as by Domenicus van Tol.

With Arthur D. Tite, London, 1930s;
Warren H. Lowenhaupt, New Haven, CT, by whom donated to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1957;
The Wadworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticult;
By whom de-accessioned and sold, New York, Chistie's, 12 January 1996, lot 154.

This picture, formerly attributed to Frans van Mieris, was first identified as by Van Tol by S.J. Gudlaugsson in 1959. The nervous brushwork is typical of much of Van Tol's work, and may be seen, for example, in the signed portrait sold in Paris, Tajan, 9 December 1999, lot 53, and the Two Children with a Mousetrap in the Rjksmuseum, Amsterdam. The illusionistic device of the curtain is also typical of the artist, and the chair with carved finials is found in other works by him, including one sold in the Adolphe Schloss sale in Paris, 5 December 1952, lot 55.