Jan Wijnants and Johannes Lingelbach

Probably Johan van der Marck Aegidiusz (1707-1772), Leiden; 

Probably his estate sale, Amsterdam, de Winter and Yver, 25 August 1773, lot 381;

Probably where acquired by "Yver," for 180 fl.; 

Probably Renaud-César-Louis de Choiseul (1735-1791), 2nd Duc de Praslin, Paris; 

Probably his estate sale, Paris, Paillet, 18 February 1793, lot 117, where acquired for 1060 livres;

Probably Jurriaans; 

Probably offered at his anonymous sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley, Roos, and de Vries, 28 August 1817, lot 79, where likely unsold; 

Probably with W.E. Duits, London, 1948; 

With Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; 

From whom acquired by a private collector;

By whom sold ("The Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Christie's, 25 May 1999, lot 104;

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

Anonymous sale ("Property of a Corporation"), New York, Sotheby's, 23 May 2001, lot 12;

Where acquired by June and Henry H. Weldon, New York;

By whom sold ("Property from the Weldon Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 2 May 2018, lot 17;

Where acquired. 

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, vol. VI, London 1829, p. 242, cat. no. 48; 

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VIII, Edinburgh 1927, p. 469, cat. no. 169; p. 495, cat. no. 278 (identified as possibly identical); 

K. Eisele, Jan Wijnants (1631/32-1684), Ein niederländischer Maler der Ideallandschaft im goldenen Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 2000, p. 146, cat. no. 129, reproduced.

Jan Wijnants and Johannes Lingelbach were frequent collaborators in Amsterdam in the mid-seventeenth century. This was a common Dutch artistic practice, in which complementary talents were combined to produce more refined and marketable works. In the present painting, Wijnants was responsible for the landscape, for which he was especially celebrated, here recognizable in the warm, luminous light and gently articulated terrain. The figures, the elegantly dressed riders, their attendants, and the peasant family, were added by Lingelbach, a specialist in animated staffage. His contribution introduces narrative, social contrast, and a sense of scale, enlivening Wijnants’s landscape.