THOMAS VAN APSHOVEN | A village landscape with figures playing ball games

According to a label on the reverse of the panel, the painting was restored in June 1873 by Henry Graves, London;

Acquired for the present collection during the 1970s.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 2, Genre, Münster/Hamburg/London 1996, p. 22, cat. no. 2, reproduced in colour;

I. Kunz, Spuren der Niederländer in Westdeutschland: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Berlin 2002, pp. 81-82, reproduced in colour.

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