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JAN BOTH (UTRECHT C. 1618-1652)

Lot 35
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Lot 35 | JAN BOTH (UTRECHT C. 1618-1652)
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$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
JAN BOTH (UTRECHT C. 1618-1652)
An Italianate landscape with bandits leading prisoners
signed ‘JBoth f’ (‘JB’ linked; lower left)
oil on canvas
65 x 85 ¾ in. (165 x 217.8 cm.)
in an 18th-century carved and gilt frame, the design attributed to Robert Adam (1728-1792) and the carving by Sefferin Alken (1717-1783)




Provenance

Commissioned of the artist by the Clifford family, Amsterdam, by descent until,
Anonymous sale; de Leth, Amsterdam, 10 November 1762, lot 17, where acquired for f 899 by Pierre Fouquet, Jr., with or for John Greenwood on behalf of,
Sir Lawrence Dundas (circa 1710-1781), 1st Bt., Moor Park and London; his sale (†), Greenwood, London, 31 May 1794 (=3rd day), lot 34, as ‘Jan Both; Figures by Andrew Both,’ where acquired for 480 gns. by,
Thomas Dundas (1741-1820), 1st Baron Dundas, by descent to his son,
Lawrence Dundas (1766-1839), 2nd Baron Dundas and later 1st Earl of Zetland, by descent to his son,
Thomas Dundas (1795-1873), 2nd Earl of Zetland, by descent to his nephew,
Lawrence Dundas (1844-1929), 1st Marquess of Zetland, 19 Arlington Street, London; (†), Christie’s, London, 27 April 1934, lot 113, as ‘Jan and Andries Both,’ where acquired for 75 gns. by the following,
with Colnaghi, London and New York, where acquired for $1,006 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on 4 October 1934.



Literature

‘Sporting subjects,’ The Sporting Magazine, XLVI, no. 273, June 1815, pp. 99 and 103, no. 55, as ‘View of Lago di Bolsena’ and as with figures by Andries Both.
An Account of All the Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the British Institution from 1813 to 1823, London, 1824, p. 208, no. 2, as ‘View of the Lake of Bolseno’.
J. Corner, Portraits of Celebrated Painters, with Medallions from Their Best Performances, London, 1825, n.p.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, VI, London, 1835, p. 181, no. 26, as ‘said to be that of [Lake] Bolseno’ and with figures by Andries Both.
C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: École hollandaise, I, Paris, 1863, pp. 4-5, as with figures by Andries Both.
M.P. Defer, Catalogue général des ventes publiques de tableaux et estampes depuis 1737 jusqu’à nos jours, Paris, 1865, p. 516, no. 20.
L. Thies, Catalogue of the Engravings Bequeathed to Harvard by Francis Calley Gray, Cambridge, MA, 1869, p. 58.
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, I, Vienna and Leipzig, 1906, p. 156, as with figures by Andries Both.
A. Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, London, 1918, p. 55, as with figures by Andries Both.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler, IX, Esslingen, 1926, pp. 445-446, no. 82, as allegedly depicting Lake Bolseno.
‘Boston Museum Acquires Both : Banditti Conducting Prisoners,’ The Art News, XXXIII, no. 4, 27 October 1934, p. 10, as dateable to circa 1640 and with figures by Andries Both and Cornelis van Poelenburgh.
‘Acquisitions, September 7 through November 1, 1934,’ Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, 32, no. 194, December 1934, p. 93.
W. Stechow, ‘Jan Both and Dutch Italianate Landscape Painting,’ Magazine of Art, XLVI, no. 3, March 1953, p. 133, illustrated.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in Oil, Tempera and Pastel, Boston, 1955, p. 6.
H. Gerson, ‘Recent Exhibitions: Italy through Dutch Eyes,’ The Art Quarterly, XXVII, 1964, pp. 345, 353, fig. 5.
D. Sutton, ‘The Dundas Pictures,’ Apollo, LXXXVI, no. 67, September 1967, pp. 207, 211, Appendix 5.
J.D. Burke, Jan Both: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Ph.D. dissertation, 1976, pp. 168, 174, 188, note 37, no. 12.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Boston, 1985, p. 26, illustrated.
A. Sutherland Harris, Landscape Painting in Rome, 1595-1675, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, pp. 74-75, as a magnificent display of Both’s ‘remarkable technique’.
G. Keyes, ‘Jan Both’s Italian Landscape with Travelers Resting,’ The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art, VI, no. 4, 1987, pp. 39-40, fig. 16.
N.H.J. Hall, ed., Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi New York, New York, London and Paris, 1992, p. 127.
P.C. Sutton, The Golden Age of Dutch Landscape Painting, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, 1994, p. 88, under no. 13.
J. Rosen, ‘A Great Minor Master: The Robbery by Simon Kick in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie,’ Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 2007, Berlin, 2007, p. 93, fig. 13.



Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1815, no. 55, as depicting ‘Lago de Bolsina’ (lent by Lord Dundas).
London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, June 1845, no. 16 (lent by the Earl of Zetland).
London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English Masters, June 1864, no. 59 (lent by the Earl of Zetland).
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Italy through Dutch Eyes, 22 April-24 May 1964, no. 14.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting, 2 October 1987-31 July 1988, no. 16 (cat. by P.C. Sutton).
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age, 8 June-22 July 1990, no. 19.



Engraved

J. Brown, 1794
Artist:Jan Dirksz Both (1618 - 1652)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
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