DAVID VINCKBOONS | A wooded landscape with elegant figures promenading, and villagers with their cattle

Paul Delaroff (1852-1913), St. Petersburg (his red wax seal on the reverse);

His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 23-24 April 1914, lot 19 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger and Peter Snayers), for 920 Francs to Sortais;

M.G. Sortais, Paris;

By whom sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 10 June 1925, lot 11 (as Pieter Brueghel the Younger);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Tajan, 12 December 1995, lot 8 (as David Vinckboons);

Galleria Luigi Caretto, Turin, 1999;

From whom acquired by the aunt of the present owner.

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, David Vinckboons 1576-1632, Lingen 2016, p. 313, cat. no. 20, reproduced p. 314 (as David Vinckboons).

A protestant whose family had fled Antwerp to settle in Amsterdam in 1586, Vinckboons played a crucial role in the development of genre and landscape painting in the northern Netherlands. His wooded landscapes with dense foliage and village vistas, such as the present example, are from his early period when he was most indebted to the Frankenthal painter Gillis van Coninxloo.