Anthonie Palamedesz. (1601 - 1673), Musical Company

Anthonie Palamedesz.
Dutch painter
Delft 1601 – 1673 Amsterdam
Elegant company making music in an interior
Oil on panel : 51,8 X 73,9 cm
Unsigned
Circa 1630/1635
Frame : 76,7 X 99,1 cm

Provenance :
- New York, New York Historical Society, Inv.Nr. 1872.016
- sold at Sotheby’s New York, 12/01/95 for 9.040 $ (+ buyer’s premium) = 7.394 € (+ buyer’s premium)
- Sold after cleaning at Christie’s London, 4/07/97 for 14.950 £ = 22.769 €

Anthonie Palamedesz. was an important Dutch painter of interior scenes in Delft. He often painted upper class interior scenes with one of the figures playing an instrument, regularly a mandoline. In only two or three cases a lady is playing a virginal; these paintings also date from the 1630s.

A few decades later Johannes Vermeer, who also lived in Delft, painted in the early 1670s three representations of ladies at the virginals. In the early 1660s he had already painted a larger interior scene with a man listening to a woman playing the same instrument.

All my paintings stand fully documented on my website:
https://www.jeanmoust.com/categories/portraits-genre-and-exterior-scenes/palamedesz-anthonie-2024/elegant-company-making-music-4392982