ID 1196484
Lot 21 | HENDRICK BARENTSZ. AVERCAMP (AMSTERDAM 1585-1634 KAMPEN)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
A winter scene with skaters on a frozen river, a village beyond
signed and dated 'HA 1609' ('HA' in ligature on the tree, center left)
oil on panel
11 ½ x 17 5⁄8 in. (29.2 x 44.8 cm.)
Provenance
Paul Delaroff (1852-1913), St. Petersburg; his deceased sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 23 April 1914, lot 15 (500 francs).
with Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, by 1928.
Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947), Schloss Rohoncz, by 1930, and by descent to,
Baroness Gabrielle Thyssen-Bentinck (1915-1999), Paris, by 1956.
with J.R. Bier, Haarlem, by 1962.
[The Property of an Estate bequeathed to the Weizmann Institute of Science]; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1974, lot 120.
Linda and Gerald Guterman, New York; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1988, lot 2, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
C.J. Welcker, Hendrick Avercamp, 1585-1634; Barent Avercamp, 1612-1679: Schilders tot Campen, Doornspijk, 1933, no. 4, plate VIII, fig. XXI.
E. Haverkamp-Begemann, Willem Buytewech, Amsterdam, 1959, p. 39.
W. Stechow, 'Significant Dates on some Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Paintings,' Oud Holland, LXXV, 1960, pp. 80-83, fig. 2.
W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1966, p. 85, fig. 166.
C.J. Welcker, Hendrick Avercamp, 1585-1634; Barent Avercamp, 1612-1679: Schilders tot Campen, Doornspijk, 1979, p. 203, no. 4, plate VIII, fig. XXI.
A. Blankert, Frozen Silence: Paintings from Museums and Private Collections, Amsterdam, 1982, pp. 26, 74-5, no. 2, illustrated.
W. Liedtke, The Golden Ambiance: Dutch Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century, New York, 1985, no. 4., illustrated.
P. Roelofs, et. al, Hendrick Avercamp: Master of the ice scene, Amsterdam, 2009, pp. 44-45, fig. 34.
Exhibited
Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz Gem, 1930, no. 10.
Haarlem, J. R. Bier, Hollandse 17de eeuwse meesters, 1962, no. 1.
New York, Minskoff Cultural Center, The Golden Ambiance: Dutch Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century, 1985.
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