PETER WTEWAEL (UTRECHT 1596-1660) - photo 1
PETER WTEWAEL (UTRECHT 1596-1660) - photo 2
PETER WTEWAEL (UTRECHT 1596-1660) - photo 3
PETER WTEWAEL (UTRECHT 1596-1660) - photo 4
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PETER WTEWAEL (UTRECHT 1596-1660)

Lot 59
31.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 180 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1126173
Lot 59 | PETER WTEWAEL (UTRECHT 1596-1660)
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 220 000
PETER WTEWAEL (UTRECHT 1596-1660)

A Shepherd piping on a knoll with a dog and his flock nearby; and A Shepherdess reclining on a knoll with a lamb, a hound, and a ram

oil on canvas

The first: 42 1⁄8 x 54 7⁄8 in. (107 x 139 cm.)

The second: 42 x 51 ¾ in. (106.5 x 131.5 cm.)

(2)a pair





Provenance

(Possibly) Peter Wtewael, Utrecht, until 1660.

(Possibly) Jacob Martens and Aletta Martens-Pater, Utrecht, by 1669.

Count Otto Thott (d. 1785), Gavnø Castle, Naestved, Denmark, and by descent to,

Baron Kjeld Thor Tage Otto Reedtz-Thot (1876-1923), Gavnø Castle, Naestved, Denmark, and by descent to,

Baron Axel Gustav Tage Reedtz-Thott (1920-1973), Gavnø Castle, Naestved, Denmark; his deceased sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1976, lot 36 (GBP 8,500).

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1983, lot 71.

Private collection, until 1995.

with Pieter Hoogendijk, Baarn, by 1995.

[The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 4 July 1997, lot 25, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

(Probably) J. Lange, Baroniet Gavnos Malerisamling, 1876, no. 23.

K. Madsen & O. Andrup, Fortnegnelse over to hundrede of Baroniet Gavnos Malerier af aeldre Malere samt over des Portraet samling, Copenhagen, 1914, p. 54, nos 196-7, as Joachim Wtewael.

K. Madsen, Malerisamlingen pna Gavno', Kunstmuseets Aarsskrift, IV, Copenhagen, 1917, p.48, as Joachim Wtewael.

A. W. Lowenthal, 'Some paintings by Peter Wtewael (1596-1660)', Burlington Magazine, CXVI, 1974, p. 466, figs 69 & 70.

A. McNeil Kettering, The Dutch Arcadia: Pastoral Art and its Audience in the Golden Age, Montclair, NJ, 1983, pp. 40-41, 46, and 158, note 15, figs. 27 and 28.

A. W. Lowenthal, Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism, Doornspijk, 1986, pp. 73,178-179, nos. D-12 and D-13, pls XXVI and XXVII, 174 and 175.

Tableau, February 1995, XVII, advertisement.

A. W. Lowenthal, Masters of Light, Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, 1997, p. 323, fig. 3 (only the Shepherdess is illustrated).
Artist:Peter Wtewael (1596 - 1660)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Renaissance
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
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