Jürgen Ovens, 1623 Tönning – 1678 Friedrichstadt,... Lot n° 250

DOUBLE PORTRAIT WITH WIFE AND GIRL Oil on canvas. 125 x 103 cm. Verso with several collection labels and numbering. In gilt ornamentally decorated frame with artist's name. An interior is defined primarily by its view into the urban background, bounded on the left by a red curtain. An elderly woman is seated on the right, in front of her a girl in a light-coloured robe, obviously receiving a coin in return for flowers she has brought. Provenance: Louis Bernard Coclers, Leiden/Paris/Amsterdam/Luik. Sold 1816 by auction at Philippus van der Schley, lot 38. Fideikomiss-Galerie Hannover, 1905, no. 276. Collection B. Hausmann, Hanover, no. 162, as Govaert Flinck. Sotheby's, London, 12 May 1992, lot 155. Note: The painting is documented today at the RKD in The Hague under inv.no. 138226 as attributed to Jürgen Ovens. Literature: Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, p. 2223, no. 33, as possibly by L. de Jongh. Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings and Sculptures in the Provincial Museum belonging to the Fideikommiss-Galerie of the Comprehensive House of Brunswick and Lüneburg, no. 276. (1290761) (1) (13) Jürgen Ovens, 1623 Tönning - 1678 Friedrichstadt, attributed DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AND GIRLOil on canvas. 125 x 103 cm. Provenance: Louis Bernard Coclers, Leiden/Paris/Amsterdam/Luik. Sold in 1816 at auction at Philippus van der Schley, lot 38. Fidei-Komiss-Galerie Hannover, 1905, no. 276. B. Hausmann collection, Hannover, no. 162, as Govaert Flinck. Sotheby's, London, 12 May 1992, lot 155. Notes: The painting is today listed at the RKD in The Hague with number 138226 and described as attributed to Jürgen Ovens. Literature: Werner Sumowski, Rembrandt Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, p. 2223, no. 33, possibly as L. de Jongh. Catalogue of the Fideikommiss gallery of the entire house in Braunschweig and Lüneburg: collection of paintings and sculptures belonging to the Provinzial-Museum, no. 276.