Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Property from a German Private Collection
A river landscape with figures in the foreground and a village on fire in the background
Lot Closed
September 20, 12:00 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a German Private Collection
Aert van der Neer
Gorinchem 1603–1677 Amsterdam
A river landscape with figures in the foreground and a village on fire in the background
signed with monogram lower centre: AVDN
oil on canvas
unframed: 66.1 x 58.4 cm.; 26 x 23 in.
framed: 82.7 x 77.5 cm.; 32⅜ x 30½ in.
With Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, by 1972;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 29 March 1974, lot 59, to Eerden (with incorrect provenance listed);
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 24 July 1974, lot 94, to H. Tarbell (with incorrect provenance listed and reverse dimensions);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 12 December 1975, lot 101;
With H.G. Fein, Heidelberg, 1976–1977.
Possibly C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1923, vol. VII, p. 432, cat. no. 463;
Connoisseur 1972, reproduced;
Weltkunst, 1 January 1976, reproduced p. 2095;
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, p. 474, no. 1429, reproduced plate 239 (with incorrect early provenance confusing the present canvas and a copy today in the Johnson collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art).
London, Alan Jacobs Gallery, Fine XVII Century Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, Winter 1972 – 1973, no. 3.
A copy of this painting can today be found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the John G. Johnson Collection.1
1 Inv. no. 554, oil on canvas, 64.1 x 56.8 cm.
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