Lot 164
Lot 164
ADRIAAN DE LELIE (TILBURG 1755-1820 AMSTERDAM)

An old woman frying pancakes in a kitchen, with a maid and two children; An old man reading in an interior, with a maid ironing at a table

Price Realised GBP 23,750
Estimate
GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000
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ADRIAAN DE LELIE (TILBURG 1755-1820 AMSTERDAM)

An old woman frying pancakes in a kitchen, with a maid and two children; An old man reading in an interior, with a maid ironing at a table

Price Realised GBP 23,750
Price Realised GBP 23,750
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ADRIAAN DE LELIE (TILBURG 1755-1820 AMSTERDAM)
An old woman frying pancakes in a kitchen, with a maid and two children; An old man reading in an interior, with a maid ironing at a table
the second indistinctly signed and dated 'A de Lel... / A...' (upper left)
oil on canvas
2334 x 1934 in. (60.2 x 50.2 cm.)
a pair
Provenance
Jan Jansz. Gildemeester (1744-1799), Agent and Consul General of Portugal; (†) his sale, Philippe van der Schley, Amsterdam, 11 June 1800 (=1st day), lots 118 and 119, (700 guilders to A. Delfos van Leyden.)
J.P. van Lelyveld, by 1929.
Adolph Staring (1890-1980), Deventer.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 11 November 1996, lot 91 (94,562 Dutch guilder).
with Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, The Hague, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. Knoef, Tussen Rococo en Romantiek, The Hague, 1943, pp. 41 and 58-9, illustrated.
A, Staring, 'De Beeldende Kunst in de achttiende eeuwe', Kunstgeschiedenis der Nederlanden, Utrecht, 1946, p. 651, fig. 649.
C.J. de Bruyn Kops, 'De Amsterdamse verzamelaar Jan Gildemeester Jansz.', Bullitin van het Rijksmuseum, XIII, 1965, p. 114, note 35.
A.C.A.W. van der Feltz, 'Adriaan de Lelie 1755-1820, portret- en genreschilder in Amsterdam', Antiek, XXII, no. 5, December 1987, pp. 258-267, fig. 7
G.H. Vogel, 'Idylle statt Moral. Anmerkungen zu den Küchenstücken von Adriaan de Lelie', Kunstlicht, X, no. 1, 1989, pp. 31-37, figs. 7 and 10.
W. Loos, G. Jansen and W. Kloek, Het Galante Tijdperk, exhibtion catalogue, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1995, under no. 37.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Cornelis Troost en zijn tijd, 24 July-15 September 1946, no. 26.
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