Three Peasants Drinking and Smoking

Artists

Dimensions

diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.) framed: 35.7 × 35.4 cm (14 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Sold [Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, November 25-26, 1913, lot 276]. [Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, Autumn 1928]. Gladys Hermione Leith (Mrs. Henry Gordon Leith), [1] by 1943 – until?, [2] London. R. Isaac, offered for sale [through Parke-Bernet, New York, December 8, 1949, lot 10]. [3] [Christie's, New York, March 14, 1985], sold; to[Johnny Van Haeften, London], sold; to Peter and Anne Brooke, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017 Notes [1] Gladys Hermione Leith was the wife of Henry Gordon Leith (1879-1941), a banker who had represented the Speyer Brothers in England between 1900 and 1919. They married in 1923. Born Gladys Hermione Catherine Chester-Master, she was first married to Frank Ashton Bellville in 1901. They had two children and divorced in 1909. [2] Mrs. Leith consigned the work to Christie’s, London, for a sale on June 4, 1943 as lot 63. The painting was withdrawn from the sale. [3] The lot was bought in.