Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

Gerrit Battem

Wooded landscape with a stag hunt near a waterfall

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March 24, 02:40 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gerrit Battem

Rotterdam circa 1636 - 1684

Wooded landscape with a stag hunt near a waterfall

indistinctly signed lower left: Battem

oil on canvas

unframed: 49.1 x 62.3 cm.; 19 1/4 x 24 1/2 in.

framed: 68 x 80.5 cm.; 26 3/4 x 31 3/4 in.

With Durr Gallery (according to a label on the reverse);
By descent to Louis P. Durr (1821-80), Karlsruhe and New York;
By whose Estate given to The New York Historical Society in 1882 (inv. 1882.088);
By whom deaccessioned and sold, New York, Sotheby’s, 12 January 1995, lot 155;
Sale ('Property of Sotheby's'), New York, Sotheby's, 3 October 1996, lot 102, where acquired for the Wieg collection.

Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York 1915, p. 111, cat. no. D-88.

Gerrit van Battem studied with the portraitist Jan Daemen Cool (1589-1660), and later with the landscapist Abraham Furnerius (1628-54). Battem was also a very skilled draughtsman and etcher, and excelled in his use of gouache. Landscapes were his favourite subject matter, possibly inspired by his trips around the Rhine from when he lived in Utrecht.

A note on provenance

Born in Karlsruhe, Louis P. Durr. whose father was an art dealer, moved to the United States with his brother in 1848, first to Newark, New Jersey, and then New York City, from 1853. He donated 158 works from his collection to The New York Historical Society.