Paintings of the Italian and Dutch schools of the 17th century in Kielce
Woman Playing the Cittern (oil on canvas, 96 x 78 cm, inv. MNKi/M/1342) by the circle of Bernardo Strozzi (ca. 1581-1644) and Woman with a Tambourine (oil on canvas, 84 x 68,5 cm, MNKi/M/1343) by Johannes Jansz van Bronckhorst (1627-1656) at the National Museum in Kielce.
These two magnificent paintings come from the collection of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1914-1979) in Poznań and then in Warsaw. Dąbrowski sold and donated many works of art to the Kielce Museum. They probably come from old historical collections of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and perfectly illustrate their diversity. The paintings are considered a pair, but as their style indicates, they were executed by different painters. The Woman Playing the Cittern is more Italian and a similar painting was auctioned in Florence with an attribution to the school of Bernardo Strozzi (Pandolfini, Live Auction 1235, October 10, 2023, lot 176). The damaged part on the right indicates that, like the Florence painting, the Kielce painting was originally part of a larger composition and that the effigy of the old woman was cut or damaged at some point. The Woman with a Tambourine is very reminiscent of the style of the painting under the tile "A Concert" from the collection of Krystyna Parczewska-Kuropieska, now in the National Museum in Warsaw (inv. M.Ob.532 MNW, formerly 231020). The Warsaw painting was previously attributed to Jan van Bijlert (1597/1598-1671) and now to Johannes Jansz. van Bronckhorst.
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Attribution by Marcin Latka (Artinpl).
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