Jan Both

Italianate landscape at sunset, with travelers on a country road

Auction Closed

May 20, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Jan Both

Utrecht circa 1615/1622 - 1652

Italianate landscape at sunset, with travelers on a country road

signed lower left: JBoth (JB in compendium)

oil on canvas

canvas: 67 ⅛ by 86 ¼ in.; 170.5 by 219.1 cm.

framed: 76 by 93 in.; 193 by 236.2 cm.

Commissioned by Johannes van der Hulk, Dordrecht;
Thence by descent to Gillis Francken, Dordrecht;
His sale, Dordrecht, 23 April 1720, lot 18 ("Een Capitaal Landscap door Jan Both heerlijk en konstif geschildert," h. 5v. 10d, br. 7v. 2d, sold for 80 florins);
Prince U. Gagarine, Saint Petersburg;
With Neufang, Munich;
From whom acquired by the husband of an anonymous Lady, March 1955;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1996, lot 31;
There acquired by the present collector.

G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, The Hague 1742, vol. 1, p. 248;

A. Houbraken, De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlandsce Konschilders en Schilderessen, 1718-1721, 2^nd ed., vol. II, The Hague 1953, pp. 113-14 (Van der Hulk Collection);

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Esslingen/Paris 1926, p. 509, no. 326 (as once in the Van der Hulk Collection);

H.J. Horn, The Golden Age Revisited. Arnold Houbraken’s Great Theatre of Netherlandish Painters and Paintresses,Doornspijk 2000, p. 195 (as once in the Van der Hulk Collection).