
Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
The sculptor's studio
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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Adriaen van der Werff
Kralingen 1659–1722 Rotterdam
The sculptor's studio
signed lower right: V · WERFF
oil on copper
unframed: 26 x 19 cm.; 10¼ x 7½ in.
framed: 41.4 x 34.1 cm.; 16¼ x 13⅜ in.
Possibly Władysław Grzędzielski (1920–2007), Warsaw (according to a mount at the RKD);
Private collection, Germany;
With Galerie Noortman, Maastricht;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 1–3 June 1978, lot 564;
With Galerie Müllenmeister, Solingen, 1986;
Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1993;
Thence by inheritance.
Munich, Haus der Kunst and Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Fondation Corboud, Wettstreit der Künste. Malerei und Skulptur von Dürer bis Daumier, 1 February – 5 May and 25 May – 25 August 2002, no. 122;
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan until March 2025.
C. Klein, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers. Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 276–77, no. 109, reproduced in colour;
E. Mai, in Wettstreit der Künste. Malerei und Skulptur von Dürer bis Daumier, E. Mai and K. Wettengl (eds), exh. cat., Wolfratshausen 2002, pp. 332–33, no. 122, reproduced in colour.
An unsigned version of this composition is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.1
1 Inv. no. MI 1012; oil on panel, 23 x 16.5 cm; B. Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff, 1659–1772, Munich 1987, pp. 217–218, no. 17, reproduced: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059534
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