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The Property of a European Private Collector
Aert van der Neer
A moonlit river landscape with a village, a windmill and church beyond, with travellers on a path in the foreground
Lot Closed
July 8, 02:11 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a European Private Collector
Aert van der Neer
Amsterdam circa 1603/4 - 1677
A moonlit river landscape with a village, a windmill and church beyond, with travellers on a path in the foreground
signed with monogram lower right: AVDN
oil on canvas
unframed: 54 x 72.1 cm.; 21¼ x 28⅜ in.
framed: 77.1 x 94.7 cm.; 30⅜ x 37¼ in.
Probably anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 16 April 1923, lot 115, for £19-19s. to Wise;
M. Schloss, Amsterdam;
From whom acquired by Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, stock no. 3053, until May 1940 when Aryanised by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring;
Hermann Göring, Carinhall, delivered 13 September 1940 and hung in the Smoking Room;
Transferred to Alois Miedl, 9 February 1944, in part exchange for the Van Meegeren ‘Vermeer’;
With Goudstikker-Miedl, stock no. H 51;
From whom bought by Cornel Berk, Burg Neu-Hemmerich, Frechen near Cologne, for 32,000 Florins, 28 June 1944;
Anonymous sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 24 June 1953, lot 49;
Private collection, Europe;
Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker, May 2021.
M. Schloss, Amsterdam;
From whom acquired by Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, stock no. 3053, until May 1940 when Aryanised by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring;
Hermann Göring, Carinhall, delivered 13 September 1940 and hung in the Smoking Room;
Transferred to Alois Miedl, 9 February 1944, in part exchange for the Van Meegeren ‘Vermeer’;
With Goudstikker-Miedl, stock no. H 51;
From whom bought by Cornel Berk, Burg Neu-Hemmerich, Frechen near Cologne, for 32,000 Florins, 28 June 1944;
Anonymous sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 24 June 1953, lot 49;
Private collection, Europe;
Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker, May 2021.
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, p. 376, cat. no. 967;
N. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, p. 257, cat. no. A230;
J.-M. Dreyfus, Le catalogue Goering, Paris 2015, p. 168, no. RM228/F373.
N. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, p. 257, cat. no. A230;
J.-M. Dreyfus, Le catalogue Goering, Paris 2015, p. 168, no. RM228/F373.