David Vinckboons

Dr. Einar Perman (1893–1976), Stockholm, by 1949;

Thence by descent.

Possibly K. van Mander, The Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, H. Miedema (ed.), 6 vols, Doornspijk 1994, vol. 1, pp. 456–57, fol. 299v;

K. Goossens, David Vinckboons, Antwerp 1954, pp. 39–42, p. 140, reproduced p. 40, fig. 21;

Le paysage aux Pays-Bas: de Bruegel à Rubens, A.B. de Vries et al., exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ghent 1961, no. 74;

F.C. Legrand, Les peintres Flamands de Genre au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1963, p. 120;

K. Goossens, David Vinckboons, Soest-Holland 1977, pp. 39–42, p. 140, reproduced p. 40, fig. 21;

J. Briels, Peintres Flamands en Hollande, Antwerp 1987, pp. 60–61, reproduced in colour p. 60, fig. 48;

F. Lammertse in Het Kunstbedrijf van de familie Vingboons; schilders, architecten en kaartmaker in de gouden eeuw, exh. cat., Amsterdam 1989, pp. 42 and 101, no. 2, reproduced in colour p. 42;

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, David Vinckboons, Lingen 2016, vol. 10, pp. 46, 48–50, 308–9 and 410, no. 12, reproduced p. 309, fig. 12.

Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le paysage aux Pays-Bas: de Bruegel à Rubens, 11 February – 27 March 1961, no. 74;

Maastricht, Kunstandel P. de Boer, PICTURA, 26 February – 6 March 1983;

Amsterdam, Koninklijk Paleis, Het Kunstbedrijf van de familie Vingboons; schilders, architecten en kaartmaker in de gouden eeuw, 1 June – 3 September 1989, no. 2.

It is likely that this very painting was mentioned in van Mander's biographical account of the lives of Netherlandish and German painters: 'Now, in 1604, he [Vinckboons] has two little pieces in hand for the painter Jan van Coninxloo, one is Christ preaching and the other a Peasants' Wedding, full of excellently handsome details, various little figures as well as houses, ships and landscapes, and also well composed.'¹

Note on Provenance

Einar Perman Sr was born in Stockholm in 1893 and died there in 1976. He followed in his father’s footsteps as a surgeon and pursued a successful career in the city’s hospitals and in private practice. In 1930 a meeting with the famous Amsterdam dealers in Dutch Golden Age paintings and drawings, Piet and Nellie de Boer, triggered Perman’s interest in Dutch and Flemish art. At first he focused on paintings, but subsequently turned to collecting drawings, which was to be a lifelong passion. The majority of his collection of drawings was dispersed in a sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam in 1975, and some of the remainder was sold more recently at Sotheby’s in New York: others, and some of his paintings, are included in this sale. Einar Perman’s personal taste is clear to see here. As his son, also Einar Perman (1931–2023) wrote, ‘he was a landscape collector, not a people collector’. While his collection included (as in this sale) still lifes and genre pictures, landscape painting and drawing was his first love, and it his hardly surprising to find among these paintings by Allaert van Everdingen of Scandinavian subjects. 

¹ Van Mander 1994, p. 457.