Lot 71: JAN VAN MIERIS LEIDEN 1660 - 1690 ROME

oil on canvas

40 by 32.2 cm.

Otto Naumann has kindly confirmed the attribution to the artist on the basis of photographs. He compares it closely to a signed Pyramus and Thisbe by Jan van Mieris, dated 1679, in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe (inv. no. 274).

Offered with a photostat certificate by Dr. Walther Bernt, dated 22 February 1971, confirming this painting to be by Jan van Mieris.