Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man (Portrait Historié of the Steyn Family)

Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man (Portrait Historié of the Steyn Family)

General information
Artist Caesar van Everdingen (1617/1618 - 1678)
Titel Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man (Portrait Historié of the Steyn Family)
Dating 1652
Object name painting
Material and technical details
Technique oil
Material canvas
Dimensions height: 75.9 cm
width: 103.6 cm
Other details
Inscriptions dated and signed: ANNO. / 1652 / CVE
Inventory number 39
Origin Pieter Steyn, Haarlem and The Hague, until 1772; his widow, Cornelia Steyn-Schellinger, The Hague, 1772-1783; her bequest to Prince William V, The Hague, 23 September 1783; Prince William V, The Hague, 1783-1795; confiscated by the French, transferred to the Muséum Central des Arts/Musée Napoléon (Musée du Louvre), Paris, 1795-1815; Royal Picture Gallery, housed in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, 1816; transferred to the Mauritshuis, 1822; on loan to the Stedelijk Museum, Alkmaar, 1954-1971

source
mauritshuis