L13040

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Lot 4
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Hans Bol

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Hans Bol
  • landscape with christ on the road to emmaus, a woman herding cattle to the right
  • Gouache on vellum, laid down on panel;
    signed in monogram and dated: HB 1585 (under the bridge)

Provenance

A label pasted on the back of the panel reads as follows: Old drawing in Guazzo upon fine Vellum / (apparently) stretched upon panel - Signed HB 1635 [sic] / in microscopic characters under the bridge / Belonged to Matthew Duane Esq F.S.A who died 1785 / Mrs... Dawson died 1799 / Mrs Hutchinson of Whitton House died 1844 / Mrs Hutchinson ditto 1866 / ...Hutchinson 1877 /...(no. 7);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 15 November 1983, lot 244,
thence by descent

Condition

Laid down on a wooden panel; appears to be on vellum, but cannot be utterly sure. gold framing border worn in bottom left corner and repainted bottom right, some damage on top edge where perhaps old frame was attached. Overall condition seems good; some wear on tree, some by head of black cow at right; small round damage to right of tree top in sky.
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Catalogue Note

This is a characteristic work by the artist, both in technique and in the placement of Biblical events in a northern European landscape.