CORNELIS DUSART

(1660 Haarlem 1704)
A man smoking a pipe before a tavern. 1684.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated centre bottom: Cor. Dusart 1684 and inscribed upper right: T NIUWE TROFFLE TYE.
49 × 40.8 cm.

Provenance:
– Collection of Cabinet of Baron Liedts, Brussels.
– Sale G. Berré de Haen, Antwerp, 1833.
– Collection of Charles Piérard, Valenciennes.
– Sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20.3.1860, Lot 19.
– Collection of J. B. Foucart (1823–1898), Valenciennes (red wax seal verso).
– Sale Gostieau, Valenciennes, 12.10.1898, Lot 41 (label verso).
– Private collection, France.
– Sale Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 6.6.2014, Lot 9.
– European private collection.