JAN LIEVENS (LEIDEN 1607-1674 AMSTERDAM)

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ID 587680
Lot 22 | JAN LIEVENS (LEIDEN 1607-1674 AMSTERDAM)
JAN LIEVENS (LEIDEN 1607-1674 AMSTERDAM)

A haywain under trees, with farm buildings to the right and beyond at left

pen and brown ink, possibly fragmentary watermark lion on a circle with a crown (cf. Heawood no. 3136)

5 7/8 x 7 ½ in. (14.8 x 19 cm)







Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830), London (L. 2445).

Samuel Woodburn (1785-1843), London (according to the 1908 sale catalogue).

William Esdaile (1758-1837), London (L. 2617, twice, recto and verso [partial mark], with remnants of associated inscription [now illegible]); Christie’s, London, 18-25 June 1840, possibly part of lots 1057, 1058 or 1059.

Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798-1886), London (L. 2234); Christie’s, London, 12-14 July 1887, lot 1104 (as Rembrandt, A woody landscap, with a waggon’) (2.5s. to Knowles).

Mountmaker’s mark, probably of Alexandre Jouanest (active 1888-1911) or Maurice Hauët (born 1869), Paris (L. 3536).

Sir James Thomas Knowles (1831-1908), London; Christie’s, London, 27-29 May 1908, lot 81 (£11 to Colnaghi).

Anton Wilhelmus Mari Mensing; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 29 April 1937, lot 344 (288 guilders; bought by Nicolaas Beets for Franz Wilhelm Koenigs).

Franz Wilhelm Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem; thence by descent to the present owners.





Literature

H.D. Schneider, Jan Lievens. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Haarlem, 1932, no. Z. 388.

H.D. Schneider, Jan Lievens. Sein Leben und seine Werke, R.E.O. Ekkart, ed., Amsterdam, 1973, no. Z. 388, p. 376.
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