JAN ASSELIJN | A gentleman with a grey horse in a cavernous landscape

Johan van der Marck (1707–72), Amsterdam;

His deceased sale, Amsterdam, Hendrik de Winter and Jan Yver, 25 August 1773, lot 2 (as Asselijn), for 540 francs;

Jan Danser Nyman;

His sale, Amsterdam, Philippe van der Schley, 16 August 1797, lot 1 (as Asselijn), for 112 francs;

Private collection, UK, 1857/58;

Grégoire Koucheleff-Besborodko (1832–70);

His sale, Paris, Durand-Ruel, 5 June 1869, lot 15 (as Karel du Jardin);

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 3 June 1987, lot 120 (as Asselijn), when acquired.

C. Blanc, Le trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de vente de tableaux, Paris 1858, vol. I, p. 223;

C. Blanc, Histoires des Peintres, Paris 1863, vol. I, p. 4, reproduced;

I. Ledermann, Beiträge zur geschichte des romantischen Landschaftsbildes in Holland und seines Einflusses auf die nationale Schule um die Mitte des 17.Jahrhunderts, doctoral diss., Berlin 1920, p. 38;

A.C. Steland-Stief, Jan Asselijn, Amsterdam 1971, pp. 91 and 138, cat. no. 94 (as location unknown);

Raupp 1996, pp. 24–27, cat. no. 3, reproduced in colour;

J.M. Kilian, The Paintings of Karel Du Jardin, Amsterdam and Philadelphia 2005, p. 287, cat. no. E6;

Rotterdam 2008, p. 76, cat. no. 61, reproduced in colour.

ENGRAVED:

L.A. Claessens for Koucheleff-Besborodko sale, in reverse.

In the Nyman sale the painting is described as being signed by Asselijn, but by the time of the Koucheleff-Besborodko sale it had acquired a false Dujardin signature, now removed. The Claessens engraving is reproduced in Steland-Stief 1971, pl. LXII (see Literature).

Manchester, Art Treasures of Great Britain, 5 May – 17 October 1857;

Rotterdam 2008, no. 61.

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