Lot 176
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Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker
  • River landscape with fishermen in a boat, houses beyond
  • signed with initials and dated centre right: CD 1669
  • oil on oak panel
  • 41 x 35.5 cm

Provenance

Probably with Dennis Artaria, Vienna, 1804;
Graf Czernin’sche Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, 25 May 1804 (as Meindert Hobbema);
Thence by descent in the Czernin collection until after 1936;
Probably acquired by the father of the present owner from Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna.

Literature

G.F. Waagen, Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien, Vienna 1866, no. 7 (as doubtful of the attribution to Meindert Hobbema);
A. Bredius, Kunstbote, 1880 (as C. Decker);
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstlerlexikon, Vienna and Leipzig 1906, vol. I, p. 388;
U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. VIII, Leipzig 1913, p. 32;
K. Wilczek, Katalog der Graf Czernin’schen Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1936, p. 29, cat. no. 179.