Lot 3064: Maerten Stoop, Guardroom scene: the guards ignore a crying lady

Maerten Stoop, Guardroom scene: the guards ignore a crying lady, Oil on oak, Circa 1640, Inscribed on flag (possibly written in mirror image): HA? / On the reverse in pencil: 45 / On the frame: Mompers Lomen, 19 1/8 x 26 in., Two glued panels, bound together by wooden clasps on the reverse

Thieme-Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, vol. 32, p.116: "Den Haag Internat. Kusthandel (1929): Soldaten u. Dirnen ... Um 1930 in Berl. Besitz dem N. Knüpfer zugeschr. 48,7 x 63,5“

1929 Galerie Internationale, The Hague / from 1929 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin (as Nicolaus Knupfer) / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin. Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: Correspondence between Werner Teupser, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, and Kurt Rohde, 1932 and 1939