The curious 1901

A group of five children in Dutch costume curiously look in through an open window. On the inner windowsill a bowl with high wavy edge.

JQAW# G_1901_030
Pastel on cardboard 86 x 53 cm
Signature: J. Ɑdams 8. Nov
Unknown private collection.
Photo: Kende/Schildlof auction catalog 1919.

This Dutch genre painting, lost since 1919, excellently depicts the immediacy and curiosity of the children, who obviously watch the painter at his work and thus themselves become probably unknowingly sitters in the artistic process.

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Provenance

Auction Kende Vienna, 4./5.12.1902 Lot#3.
Unknown.
Auction Kende/Schildlof, Vienna 23.4.1919 lot #82 (w.ill.).
Unknown private collection.