(Zwammerdam? after 1622 - after 1669 Leiden)
Mixed company playing cards,
signed and dated lower right: Q V Brekelenkam. f.1648,
oil on panel, 39 x 48.8 cm, framed

Provenance:
Collection C. Beer, Berlin;
Collection Paul Schwabach (1867–1938), Berlin (handed over in 1931 as deposit to Gebr. Arnhold Bank, Dresden);
Berlin; in 1934 stored in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam;
Collection Adolf Arnhold (1884–1950), 1937 until 16 December 1938;
D. Katz Gallery, Dieren;
J. Goudstikker Gallery;
Miedl Gallery, Amsterdam, 14 August 1940;
Collection Dr. E. Quitzbach, Berlin;
Collection Hermann Göring;
Nederlands Kunstbezit, 1947;
Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties (later ICN, RCE), The Hague,
inv. no. 2924;
restitution to the rightful heirs after Adolf Arnhold, 2012;
Private collection, England, until 2018

Literature:
A. Woltmann, K. Woermann, Geschichte der Malerei, Leipzig 1878–1888, vol. 3 (1888), p. 798;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet, Vienna 1906–1911, vol. 1, p. 181 (Berlin, Collection Beer);
P. C. Sutton, Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie; London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1984, p. 161, note 1;
E. A. Honig, in: E. J. Sluijter et al., Leidse Fijnschilders: Van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge 1630–1760, exhibition catalogue, Leiden 1988, pp. 81/82 (as dated 1647? or 1644);
A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk 1992, p. 8, note 3,
pp. 13, 156, cat. no. B43