The Property of a Former Minister of The Netherlands
Herman Saftleven
Travellers on a wooded path by a river and bathers in a mountainous landscape
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Former Minister of The Netherlands
Herman Saftleven
Rotterdam 1609–1685 Utrecht
Travellers on a wooded path by a river and bathers in a mountainous landscape
monogrammed and dated on the stone lower left: H.S / 1644
oil on oak panel
unframed: 47.8 x 71.8 cm.; 18⅞ x 28¼ in.
framed: 72.8 x 95.2 cm.; 28⅝ x 37½ in.
Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 17 June 1989, lot 516 (as circle of Jan Both), for 122,100 French francs;
With Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam;
Where acquired by the father of the present owner in November 1993, for 82,000 Dutch florins;
Thence by descent.
This charming composition is comparable with a painting by Saftleven, dated either 1641 or 1647, in a private collection, Vienna.1 Saftleven's landscapes from the 1640s evidence the influence of Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594–1667) and Jan Dirksz. Both (c. 1615–1652).
Dr Wolfgang Schulz endorsed the attribution of this painting to Saftleven in a letter of expertise dated 5 August 1993.
1 W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven, Berlin and New York 1982, p. 201, no. 263, reproduced fig. 15.
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