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Victors, Jan
1619 Amsterdam - 1677/83 Dutch East Indies.
«Der Dorfmetzger (the village butcher)».
Around 1650. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower left. Verso on the stretcher a printed label with the work's and artist's data as well as the provenance. Verso on the stretcher and canvas three customs stamps.
H 65,5, W 94,5 cm (support). Elaborate frame.
Jan Victors was a painter of the Golden Age of Dutch painting. This cultural heyday brought forth outstanding painters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt and alongside them many painters specializing in certain pictorial subjects. Often referred to as a student Rembrandts, but probably only assumed as such, Jan Victors was an expert in history and genre painting, who masterfully captured events at the market, the dentist or butchers.
In the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam there is a painting by his hand dating 1648 which resembles the present work in format, motif and composition as well as in the reproduction of the figures (inventory number SK-C-259).
Authentication: We would like to thank Dr. Fred G. Meijer, expert on Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th century, Amsterdam, for the authentication via E-Mail, based on photos, 26.08.2022.
Provenance: Duke of Beaufort; Marquis of Waterford and line of succession; Sotheby's London, 08.12.1971, Lot 23; purchased at Collection K.W.D. Gratama, Heemstede, in 1975; since then private collection Mönchengladbach in second generation.
Archive: The present work is registered at the archive of the Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (RKD), Den Haag, in the directory Cornelis Hofstede de Groot under division number 280, file number 1587256, illustration number 0001019913 (https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/584045).

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