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Drinkers before the Fireplace

 (Dutch, act. ca. 1627–ca. 1666)
Dateca. 1660
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/2 x 26 1/8 in. (77.5 x 66.4 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1918.1.78
Collection History

Anonymous sale, July 5, 1769, Amsterdam, Lot 21. Nicolaas Albrechts sale, May 11–, 1772, Amsterdam, Lot 19, sold to Nijman. Anonymous sale, June 21–, 1774, Amsterdam, Lot 103, sold to Winter. Baronne de V. . .ez sale, September 19–20, 1815, Paris, Lot 36 (unsold because auction was stopped). Lord Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, sale, June 15, 1846, Château d’Ixelles, Belgium, Lot 4. Robert Napier, West Shandon, Dumbartonshire. His sale, April 13, 1877, Christie’s, Lot 475, sold to Goupil. Antony Gibbs. Anonymous sale, November 24, 1900, Christie’s, Lot 25, sold to Fischof. Frick, 1918. (In all of the sales cited above, the painting was listed under the name of de Hoogh.)

Source: Paintings in The Frick Collection: American, British, Dutch, Flemish and German. Volume I. New York: The Frick Collection, 1968.

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