Pieter de Bloot, Peasants Drinking and Smoking in an Interior

Pieter de Bloot

1601/02 Rotterdam - 1658 Rotterdam

Peasants Drinking and Smoking in an Interior

Oil on panel. 33 x 41.5 cm (oval).

Signed and dated lower right: P De Bloot 1655 [1635?].

** Provenance
The Alexis Schönlank collection, Berlin. - His sale, J. M. Heberle (H. Lempertz’ Söhne), Cologne, 28.-29.4.1896, lot 16. - Auctioned by Koller, Zürich, 22.5.1973, lot 2783. - Auctioned by Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 7.5.1974, lot 36. - Auctioned by Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 17.11.1993, lot 22. - Italian private collection.

This interior scene by Pieter de Bloot once belonged to the important paintings collection of the Berlin based collector Alexis Schönlank, which was auctioned by Lempertz in Cologne in 1896. His collection also included works by Herri met de Bles (lot 13, heute Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels), Paulus Lesire (lot 18, now Kunstmuseum Basel), The Master of the Prodigal Son (lot 25, now Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen), and Lucas Cranach (lot 34, now Philadelphia Museum of Art, and lot 35, now Art Institute, Chicago).