(Rotterdam 1634–1682 Amsterdam)
A woman singing,
signed in the lower middle: Jacob Ochtervelt,
oil on panel, 26.5 x 19.5 cm, unframed

Provenance:
“Monplaisir”, Peterhof Park, St. Petersburg;
The Hermitage, Leningrad;
Rudolf Lepke sale, Berlin, 1 April 1930, no. 59b;
Flechtheim sale, Helbing and Paffrath, Düsseldorf, 11 March 1933, no. 7;
European private collection

Literature:
A. Somof, Ermitage Impérial, Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux; école Néerlandaise et école Allemande, St. Petersburg, 1901, p. 266, no. 1769; A. Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Wien 1910, vol. 2, p. 249; E. Plietzsch, Jacob Ochtervelt, in: Pantheon, München, 20.1937, p. 370, fn. 1;Bénézit, Dictionnaire, vol. 6, 1953, p. 404;
E. Plietzsch, Holländische und flämische Maler des XVII. Jahrh., Leipzig 1960, p. 65; S. D. Kuretsky, The paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt, Montclair, 1979, no. 47, p. 73 and illustrated fig. 69A, p. 152

E. Plietzsch (op.cit. 1960) has suggested that the present painting may be the companion to a Man in the niche by Jacob Ochtervelt (oil on panel, 29 x 23 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main) (op.cit. Kuretsky, 1979, no. 48, p. 73, fig. 70).