Portrait of Pieter Groenendijk

Portrait of Pieter Groenendijk

SK-A-4888

signature: ‘Maes’

Pieter Groenendijk was an official in the Leiden city government. When he married Petronella Dunois of Amsterdam, she moved into his home and brought her dolls’ house with her. After the couple’s death, the dolls’ house went to their heirs and subsequently passed down the female line until it was acquired by the Rijksmuseum.

painter: Nicolaes Maes

1677 - 1685

olieverf op doek

height 69.2 cm x width 57.8 cm x depth 8.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the VSBfonds

purchase 1994-01-12

Public domain

Inv.; sale, Perry Belmont and Mrs Belmont (Washington, DC and Newport, RI), New York (Anderson Galleries), 21 October 1932, no. 320, with pendant, SK-A-1889, no. 321;…; sale, Alder Manor et al. [section 'The property of a private collector'], New York (Christie´s), 12 January 1994, no. 132, fl. 44,735, to the museum

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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