A drunk young man leaning on a barrel and an elderly lady stealing his purse

ATTRIBUTED TO JAN STEEN (LEIDEN 1626-1679)
A drunk young man leaning on a barrel and an elderly lady stealing his purse
oil on panel
18.6 x 18.5 cm. (7³⁄₈ x 7³⁄₈ in.)

Johan Alenzoon, Leiden; (†) his sale, Delfos, Leiden, 10 May 1774, lot 41, as Jan Steen, ‘Een weerga alwaar een beschonken Jongman met zyn arm en hooft op een Ton leunt, terwyl een Vrouw daar agter, hem zyn beurs onfutselt’ (together with a pendant of a schoolmistress teaching a boy writing).
Daniel de Jongh Azn., Rotterdam; (†) his sale, Van Ryp, Rotterdam, 26 March 1810, lot 39, as Jan Steen, ‘Bij een Ton, zit een Dronke Karel, vastgehouden wordende door eene Vrouw, comicq van uitdrukking, en breed geschilderd’, (Dfl. 73,50 with its pendant to M. van Yperen).
Warnar Wreesman Borghartz., Amsterdam; (†) his sale, Van der Schley, Amsterdam, 11 April 1816, lot 175, as Jan Steen, ‘Een dronke Boer door zijn vrouw ondersteund wordende. Geestig’, (Dfl. 77 with its pendant to Gruyter).
F.J. Castelain. 1881-1882 (according to a wax seal on the reverse).
Viscount of Buisseret , Brussels; his deceased sale, Le Roy, Brussels, 29 April 1891, lot 109, as Jan Steen and as signed with a monogram on the barrel (without its pendant).
Josef Cremer, Dortmund, by 1914; (†) his sale, Wertheim, Berlin, 29 May 1929, lot 83, as Jan Steen, ‘Seekranker Raucher’.
H. Nijgh, Rotterdam.
with Kunstzaal d’Autretsch, The Hague, as Jan Steen, where acquired on 1 March 1944 by Mr. C. Dekker, Wassenaar (Dfl. 25.000).

T. van Westrheene, Jan Steen: étude sur l’art en Hollande..., The Hague 1856, p. 167, no. 460, as Jan Steen and as no. 459 (‘Une femme qui apprend un garçon a écrire’) as its pendant.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc, I, Esslingen/Paris 1907, pp. 201, 227, nos. 748b, 750 (as signed with a monogram on the barrel) and 840a, as Jan Steen.
Collection Geh. Kommerzienrat Cremer Dortmund, Dortmund 1914, I, p. 75; II, p. 35, no. 130, as Jan Steen.
K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, p. 176, no. B-210, under rejected attributions.