Lot 490: Johann Jakob Mettenleiter (1750-1825)

A carpenter at work and a woman at the spinningweel in an interior; and A peasant family at table in a barn the first signed J.Mettenleitter.f lower right; the second signed J.Mettenleitter lower left oil on copper 48.9 x 36.1 cm and smaller (2) NOTES As pointed out by H. Gerson, Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der Holl„ndischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, 1983, p.330, the artist visited the Netherlands. His oeuvre consists of pictures on relatively small size as the present lot, in which Dou's influence is evident.