Karel Dujardin

With W. Paech, Amsterdam (before 1940);
Anonymous sale ("Property from the Collections of Mr. Jan W. Vos, Amsterdam, Mr. H. Schauwecker, Brussels, and other collections"), Geneva, Gallery Moos, 7 December 1935, lot 21;
Private Collection, Switzerland;
Anonymous Sale, Bern, Galerie Dobiaschofsky, 6-9 May 1992, lot 324;
Anonymous Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1992, lot 204;
With Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York;
There purchased by Dr. and Mrs. Edgar P. Richardson, Philadelphia in 1993;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 29 May 2003, lot 17;
There purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Pratt, Mission Hill, Kansas.

Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, on loan, March 2005-March 2007.

E. Brochhagen, “Karel Dujardins Späte Landschaften,” in Bulletin: Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts Belgique, no. 6, 1957, pp. 240-1, reproduced p. 239, fig. 4;
A. Blankert, Dutch 17th Century Italianate Landscape Painters, exhibition catalogue, Soest 1978, p. 210, under no. 130, note 8;
J. Kilian, The Paintings of Karel Dujardin, Philadelphia 2005, cat. no. 135, reproduced p. 389, plate 107.

An old glue relining is firm and stable. Overall the paint surface has been very well preserved and there is very nice retention of detail throughout. Under UV examination one can see some scattered inpaints to craquelure in the sky and distant mountains. There are also some scattered retouches at the upper left side of the sky and a possible old repaired puncture in the water at center, above the small boat. Other very small retouches and inpaints of craquelure can be seen in the water and a few on figures. These retouches have been well applied and there is no need for further work. Painting is presentable and can be hung as is. In a faux ebony wood frame.
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This luminous, Italianate landscape is dated to circa 1675, a period late in Karel Dujardin's career when he was living in Italy.