About the Artwork
A Village Festival
ca. 1645
Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot
after 1585-1666
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 27 7/8 × 42 3/4 inches (70.8 × 108.6 cm) Framed: 37 5/8 × 52 1/4 × 3 3/4 inches (95.6 × 132.7 × 9.5 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps
54.459
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, left side: JAN STEEN
Inscribed, bottom center: DROOGSLOOT
Provenance
1895, collection of Louis R. Ehrich (New York, New York, USA)
January 22-23, 1895, auction of L. R. Ehrich by (Ortgies & Co., New York, New York, USA), lot 71
January 22-23, 1895, purchased by James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
by descent to William E. Scripps and Mrs. William E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of the Private Collection of Ancient and Modern Paintings of James E. Scripps. Detroit, 1900, no. 17.
P. L. G. "A Village Festival by Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot." Bulletin of the DIA 34, no. 3 (1954-55): p. 65, (repr.) p. 64.
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 68–69, no. 25 (ill.).
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Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, A Village Festival, ca. 1645, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 54.459.
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