This masterfully Dutch genre painting was executed in the end of 17th - early 18th century and has all stylistic criteria to be attributed to the hand of important Dutch genre painter from Noth Netherlands Willem van Mieris (1662-1747). He was born in Leiden as the son of Frans van Mieris sr. and brother of Jan van Mieris. He was a member of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke and a founding member of the Leidse Tekenacademie which opened in 1694. His pupils were Catharina Backer, Abraham Alensoon, and Hieronymous van de Mij. He retired in 1736 because he was partially blind. He died, aged 84, in Leiden. His works are extremely numerous and show the influence of Francis van Bossuit as well as his father. As an artist, he did not equal his father. Mieris has works in the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as Cheltenham and Derby Museum and Art Gallery.Masterfully detailled genre painting with musketeers playing card was executed in the end of 19th century by famous and good quoted Munich genre , portrait painter and illustrator Albert Friedrich Schroeder (1854 Dresden - 1939 Munich). He studied by Ch.Verlat and F. Pauwels. His genre works situated in museums of Duisburg and Magdeburg, Munich and in prominent private collections on Europe, USA and Russia.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart";"Münchner Maler" IV, 1983; in on-line: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Inscription: unsigned, on the reverse of the panel : two sealing wax with indistinctly noble property.

Technique: oil on wood, baroque style old frame.

Measurements: unframed w 7 1/2" x h 10" (19 x 25,5 cm), framed w 13 3/4" x h 16 1/3" ( 35 x 41,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.