About the Artwork
Figures Dancing near a Ruin
ca. 1624
Cornelis van Poelenburgh
1594/95 - 1667
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 10 5/8 × 14 1/4 inches (27 × 36.2 cm) Framed: 19 1/4 × 23 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (48.9 × 59.1 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Activities Committee Fund
66.6
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Provenance
collection of the Earl of Middleton. June 26, 1964, auction of Earl of Middleton (Christie's, London, England), lot 64. (Leggatt Brothers, London, England)
1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sluijter-Seiffert, N. C. "Cornelis van Poelenburgh (ca. 1593-1667)." Ph.D. diss., University of Leiden, 1984, p. 236, no. 112.
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 164-165 [entry by S. Donahue Kuretsky].
Sluijter-Seiffert, Nicolette. Cornelis van Poelenburch, 1594/5-1667: The paintings. (Oculi 15). Amsterdam, 2016, pp. 347 (cat. no. 166) [translated by Jennifer M. Kilian and Katy Kist].
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Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Figures Dancing near a Ruin, ca. 1624, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Activities Committee Fund, 66.6.
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