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Artist |
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Aert van der Neer |
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Title |
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A Winter Lanscape with figures battling across a frozen river in a snowstorm, a post mill to the right
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Medium |
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oil on canvas |
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Size |
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23.9 x 29.8 in. / 60.8 x 75.7 cm. |
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Description |
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signed with monogram lower centre: AV DN (AV and DN in ligature)
oil on canvas |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's London: Wednesday, July 9, 2008
[Lot 40]
Old Master Paintings Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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Sold For |
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Provenance |
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Diederik Middeldorp, Leiden;
His sale, Leiden, Van der Eyk, 21 October 1761, lot 7 (p. 4), for 180 florins to Haazebroek for Neufville brothers;
Joan Willem Frank;
His deceased sale, The Hague, Francken, 5 April 1762, lot 33 (p. 9), for 47 florins to Hendrik Verschuuring, Commis ter Finantie van Holland, The Hague;
His deceased sale, The Hague, Rietmulder, 17 September 1770, lot 121 (pp. 21-22);
Sir Francis Cook, 1st Baronet, Visconde de Monserrate (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, after 1860, bought from Dale? for £400;
By descent to Sir Frederick Cook (1844-1920), Doughty House, Richmond;
By descent to Sir Herbert Cook (1868-1939);
By descent to Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th Baronet (1907-1978);
With Thos. Agnew and either Katz or Edward Speelman, London, 1956;
Sidney van den Bergh, Wassenaer, by 1959, until 1973;
With David Koetser, Zurich, from whom bought by the present owner.
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Exhibition |
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London, Royal Academy, Dutch Art, 1929, no. 203, pp. 100-101;
London, Royal Academy, 17th Century Art in Europe, 1938, p. 68, no. 133, reproduced (p. 64 in the Illustrated Souvenir Catalogue, where reproduced plate 22);
Dutch & Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century from the Cook Collection, August 1946 - January 1948, at Lincoln, Rochdale, Nottingham, Middlesborough, Hull, Birkenhead, Sheffield, Bradford, Norwich & Bedford, variously as number 32, 45, 48 or 49;
The Art Exhibitions Bureau,Touring Exhibition, Old Masters from the Cook Collection, February 1950 - June 1951, at Worthing, Doncaster, Newcastle, Bradford, Lincoln, Liverpool, Wakefield, Dudley, Swansea, Bootle & Shrewsbury, no. 14 (and possibly other numbers);
Laren, Singer Museum, Kunstschatten, 1959, no. 60, reproduced p. 31;
Leiden, Lakenhal, 17de eeuwse meesters uit Nederlands particulier bezit, 1965, pp. 9-10, no. 31, reproduced fig. 8;
San Francisco, California, Palace of the Legion of Honor; Toledo, Art Museum; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; The Age of Rembrandt, 1966-67, p. 91, no. 52;
Brussels, Palais voor Schone Kunsten, Rembrandt en zijn tijd, 1971, p. 90, no. 70, reproduced p. 91;
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Masters of 17th Century Dutch Landscape Painting, 1987-88, no. 61;
The Hague, Mauritshuis, Holland: Frozen in Time, 24 November 2001 - 25 February 2002, no. 17.
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Literature |
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G. Hoet (P. Terwesten ed.), Catalogus of Naamlyst van schilderyen met derzelver pryzen, vol. III, The Hague 1770, p. 247;
Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond. Belonging to Sir Frederick Cook, Bart. Visconde de Monserrate, editions 1903, 1907 & 1914, no. 148, as in The Long Gallery;
J.O. Kronig, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, and elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, edited by Herbert Cook, vol. II, London 1914, p. 63, cat. no. 294, reproduced plate XV, as in the Long Gallery;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. VII, London 1923, p. 450, no. 531;
M.W. Brockwell ed., Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart., London 1932, p. 37, cat. no. 294, as in the Long Gallery;
A.B. de Vries, "Old Masters in the collection of Sidney van den Bergh", in Apollo, vol. LXXX, no. 33, November 1964, p. 357, reproduced p. 355;
F. Bachmann, Die Landschaften des Aert van der Neer, Degener 1966, p. 55;
W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the 17th Century, London 1966, p. 204;
A.B. de Vries (ed.), Verzameling Sidney J. van den Bergh, Wassenaer 1968, p. 78, reproduced;
K. Müllenmeister, Meer und Landschaft in Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts. I. Seestücke und Flusslandschaften, Bremen 1973, p. 167, reproduced;
F. Bachmann, Aert van der Neer, Bremen 1982, pp. 90 and 117, reproduced fig. 88a and in colour p. 90;
P.C. Sutton, Masters of 17th Century Dutch Landscape Painting, Boston 1987, pp. 386-87, no. 61, reproduced in colour fig. 43;
A. van Suchtelen, Holland Frozen in Time. The Dutch Winter Landscape in the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, The Hague 2001, unpaginated section, no. 17, reproduced in colour facing page, p. 162, with incorrect provenance;
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, pp. 143-44, no. 65, reproduced fig. 34 and colour plate 18.
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