A Group of Children teasing a Dog with a Cat
Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem c.1610 – Haarlem 1668)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1627 - circa 1628
Materials
Oil on panel, with red wax armorial seal with single mullet in circle
Measurements
254 x 432 mm (10 x 17 in)
Order this imageCollection
Florence Court, County Fermanagh (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Florence Court, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, National Trust
NT 631059
Summary
Oil painting on panel (with red wax armorial seal with single mullet in circle), A Group of Children teasing a Dog with a Cat by Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem c.1610 – Haarlem 1668), circa 1627-28. The dating of about 1627-28 by Denis P Welles puts it as one of Molenaers earliest works.
Provenance
The Earl of Enniskillen, Florence Court, inventory no.51; removed from Florence Court by the 6th Earl & Countess in 1973; posthumous inventory of the effects of Nancy, Css. of Enniskillen at Kinloch House, Amulree, Perthshire, 22 Dec. 1998,The Drawing Room, no.635; purchased by the National Trust in 1999 by Private Treaty sale
Credit line
Florence Court, The Enniskillen Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: 20th-century paper label inscribed: 2 Pictures/Between Harp/+Devil(?)
Makers and roles
Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem c.1610 – Haarlem 1668), artist