A Group of Children teasing a Dog with a Cat

Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem c.1610 – Haarlem 1668)
National Trust Inventory Number 631059

Category	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)
Place of origin

Collection	Florence Court, County Fermanagh (Accredited Museum)
On show at	Florence Court, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, National Trust

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Summary description

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

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

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