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ZOLTÁN KOVÁCS: "The Witty Pieter Quast": The Works of an Amsterdam Master in Hungary Then and Now
See, e.g., Teniers' composition entitled The Doctor in the collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk (VA), for which likewise, Brouwer's already mentioned painting in Frankfurt is the prototype. Inv. no. 71.480, oil on canvas, 57.1 x 73.6 cm. See Karlsruhe and Heidelberg 2005, 316, no. 105. The figures appearing in the painting, Tavern Scene (oil on panel, 50 x 64 cm) are also arranged in a similar space at the Dorotheum auction in Vienna (20 March 1995, lot 282). Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, inv. no. 250, oil on panel, 42 x 61.5 cm. Karlsruhe and Heidelberg 2005, 130, no. 20. Oil on panel, 30 x 20 cm, signed upper right: PQ (fragmentary, barely legible). See Régi mesterek, 19. és 20. századi festmények árverése [Auction of Old Masters and 19—2() rh Century Paintings], Nagyházi Gallery and Auction House, 74th Auction, 2001, lot 39. See K. Ter Laan, Nederlandse spreekwoorden/spreukeu en zegs7vijzen, Elsevier 1988, 36. A Jester, chalk drawing, 196 x 150 mm, signed lower left, P.Q. 1640, San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, inv. no. 1982.2.54; Beggar with a Mag, black chalk drawing, 160 x 105 mm, inv. no. RSA 68. Catalogue of Netherlandish Drawings, The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1985, 62, fig. 423. Oil (grisaille) on panel, 30 x 26 cm, Pommersfelden, Schloß VVeissenstein, Graf Paul von Schönborn Kunstsammhingen. Fragmentary caption on the banner visible at the legs of the sweeper: Isser nyet te veegen. I owe my thanks to Dorothée Feldman, curator at the Pommersfelden Gallery, for information related to the painting. Photo: Bildarchiv Marburg. Katalog der Gemäldegalerie Pommersfelden, Munich 1894, no. 428 (as Quast). See A. Plokker, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (1589-1662). De grisailles met sprenkbanden, Leuven and Amersfoort 1984, 148-49, no. 55 (as van de Venne). The following inscription is legible on the engraving: "Ick roep schier dat ick swiet, en heb geen werck 'ecregen! /Als /naer tot Aeltie bum; daer vilsoo wat te vegen. n ("With a small lack I shout out, I sweat, and I still haven't gotten work. Off then to Aeltie the neighbour, there instead I would like to sweep.") D. Franken, Adriaen van de Venne, Amsterdam 1878, 88, no. 27. Oil on panel, 18 x 14 cm. Commeter, Hamburg 29 April 1939, lot 16, pl. VI. This concerns sheet no. 25 from the engraving series composed of twenty-six sheets. 165 x 212 mm, signed lower right: PQ. See Ch. Al. Dozy, "Pieter Nolpe (1613/14-1652/53)," Oud Holland 15 (1897), 241, no. 248 (25). See Old Master and Modern Prints. Catalogue of the Collection of David Tunick Inc., vol. 2, New York 1971, 137. A good analogy to Quast's sweeper is the protagonist of Brouwer's composition, The Pancake-Maker. Philadelphia /Museum of Art, inv. no. 681, oil on panel, 33.7 x 28.3 cm. See John G. Johnson Collection. Catalogue of Flemish and Dutch Paintings, Philadelphia 1972, 13-14; Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A Concise Catalogue, ed. C. R. Scott, O. Hess Dugan, and J. Paschietto, Philadelphia 1994, 38.
