WARNARD VAN RYSSEN [RIJZEN] | An Italianate landscape with a shepherd and his flock, together with a woman pushing a wheelbarrow near classical ruins

Duc de Praslin, Paris, 1793 (as Bartholomeus Breenbergh);

With Galerie Sankt Lucas, Vienna, 1997;

Anonymous sale ('Property from an Estate'), New York, Sotheby's, 5 October 2001, lot 99 (as Attributed to Cornelis van Poelenburch), where acquired.

M. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh. The Paintings, Berlin 1981, p. 111, cat. no. 374 (as Breenbergh);

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 220-23, cat. no. 57, reproduced in colour (as Ryssen). 

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Both the present painting and its pendant belonged to the Duc de Praslin, where they were entitled Vue des environs de Lérida and attributed to Breenbergh. They remained together until the latter was sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 5 November 2002, lot 141 (as Ryssen).¹ 

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