Pieter Codde 1599 – Amsterdam – 1678

A Painter in his Studio, Tuning a Lute

Signed and dated on the cross bar of the easel: PCodde 162[9?]

Oil on panel 41 x 54 cm.

Provenance

Brussels, with art dealer Gaston Neumans, by whom sold to
Munich, collection Hermann Heinemann (d. 1920) and Sophie Heinemann née Alexander, 1912 Munich, collection Sophie Heinemann née Alexander, 1920, by whom sold to
Munich, Galerie Heinemann, 1928
Munich, collection Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf (Galerie am Lenbachplatz, formerly Heinemann), 1938 Dietramszell (art repository Kloster Dietramszell), Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf, 1942
Munich, Central Collecting Point, 1947, from where restituted by the allied authorities to
Munich, Galerie Zinckgraf, 1949
Gundelfingen, collection Eugen Zaiss and Erika Zaiss née Haas, thence by decent to the previous owners


Literature

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C.B. Playter, Willem Duyster and Pieter Codde : the “Duystere Werelt” of Dutch genre painting, c. 1625-1635, 2 vols., diss. Cambridge (MA), Harvard University 1972, 1, p. 91; 2, fig. 134
P. Torresan, ‘Per una rivalutazione di Pieter Codde’, in: Antichità Viva 14 (1975), pp. 12-23, p. 20, fig. 16
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L.J. Deboer, Martial Arts: military themes and imagery in Dutch art of the Golden Age, diss. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan 1990, pp. 136-137, fig. 82
H. Buijs, in: Q. Buvelot, H. Buijs, A choice collection : seventeenth-century Dutch paintings from the Frits Lugt collection, exh. cat. The Hague, Mauritshuis 2002, pp. 82-83, under cat. no. 10, fig. 10c (as Pieter Codde, circle of)
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J. Rosen, ‘Codde not Brekelenkam: a case of mistaken identity’, in: The Burlington Magazine 160 (2018), pp. 112-117, p. 116, fig. 7