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Pancake Maker
Follower of: Nicolaes Maes (Dutch, 1634–1693)
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
44.1 x 32.7 cm (17 3/8 x 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Seth K. Sweetser Fund
Accession Number57.199
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1846, Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle (b. 1782 - d. 1846), The Hague; by descent within the family to Hendrick Adolf Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (b. 1836 - d. 1912), The Hague [see note 1]; June 9, 1913, posthumous Steengracht van Duivenvoorde sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 42, to Stern-Goldschmidt, Frankfurt [see note 2]. Rothschild family, Frankfurt. George H. Kennedy, London [see note 3]. By 1946, Eugene Slatter Gallery, London [see note 4]; probably sold by Slatter to Bernard Houthakker (b. 1884 - d. 1963), Amsterdam [see note 5]; 1957, sold by Houthakker to the MFA for $10,000. (Accession Date: April 11, 1957)
NOTES:
[1] Annette de Vries, Passie voor schilderijen: de verzameling Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (Voorschoten and Leiden, 2012), p. 90, cat. no. 25 (as Justus de Gelder). Recorded in the Steengracht van Duivenvoorde collection by Lord Ronald Gower, "A Pocket Guide to the Public and Private Galleries of Holland and Belgium" (London, 1875), p. 60 (as Maes).
[2] The name Goldschmidt is annotated in a copy of the auction catalogue, but according to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, "A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century based on the work of John Smith," trans. Edward G. Hawke, vol. 6 (London: Macmillan, 1916), p. 490, cat. no. 53, as well as sale results published in American Art News 9, no. 34 (June 21, 1913), p. 6, the buyer was "Stern-Goldschmidt" of Frankfurt.
[3] That the painting was with the Rothschilds and George Kennedy is information provided at the time of the acquisition, and has not been verified.
[4] Included in the exhibition "Paintings of Life and Still-Life by Dutch and Flemish Masters of the Seventeenth Century" (Eugene Slatter Gallery, London, May 22 - July 6, 1946), cat. no. 10.
[5] In a letter to Angelika Rudenstine of the MFA (November 9, 1964), Bernard Houthakker stated that he had acquired the painting in London, probably from a dealer and possibly from Eugene Slatter.
NOTES:
[1] Annette de Vries, Passie voor schilderijen: de verzameling Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (Voorschoten and Leiden, 2012), p. 90, cat. no. 25 (as Justus de Gelder). Recorded in the Steengracht van Duivenvoorde collection by Lord Ronald Gower, "A Pocket Guide to the Public and Private Galleries of Holland and Belgium" (London, 1875), p. 60 (as Maes).
[2] The name Goldschmidt is annotated in a copy of the auction catalogue, but according to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, "A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century based on the work of John Smith," trans. Edward G. Hawke, vol. 6 (London: Macmillan, 1916), p. 490, cat. no. 53, as well as sale results published in American Art News 9, no. 34 (June 21, 1913), p. 6, the buyer was "Stern-Goldschmidt" of Frankfurt.
[3] That the painting was with the Rothschilds and George Kennedy is information provided at the time of the acquisition, and has not been verified.
[4] Included in the exhibition "Paintings of Life and Still-Life by Dutch and Flemish Masters of the Seventeenth Century" (Eugene Slatter Gallery, London, May 22 - July 6, 1946), cat. no. 10.
[5] In a letter to Angelika Rudenstine of the MFA (November 9, 1964), Bernard Houthakker stated that he had acquired the painting in London, probably from a dealer and possibly from Eugene Slatter.