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JAN WIJNANTS (HAARLEM 1632-1684 AMSTERDAM) AND PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)
A landscape with brigands attacking a rider
signed and dated ‘Jan. / Wÿnant / A. 1663’ (center left, on the trunk)
oil on canvas
30 1/2 x 34 3/4 in. (77.5 x 88.3 cm.)
Provenance
Johannes Lubbeling (Lublink), Amsterdam.
Louis-Antoine-Auguste, duc de Rohan-Chabot (1733-1807); Lebrun, Paris, 10-15 December 1787, lot 29 (2900 livres to Lebrun).
Jacques Philippe, duc de Choiseul-Stainville (1727-1789), Marshal of France; (†) his sale, Folliot a.o., Paris, 23 November 1789, lot 4 (1702 livres).
Claude-Joseph Clos (1736-1812); (†) his sale, Poultier a.o., Paris, 18 November 1812, lot 45, where acquired for FF 2,420 by,
[Fabre]; his sale, Paillet, Paris, 7 May 1821, lot 2 (FF 4,500).
Lord Charles Townshend (1785-1853); his sale, Christie’s, London, 11 April 1835, lot 41 (185 gns. to Nieuwenhuis).
Baron Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen (1776-1845), The Hague, from whom acquired on 28 June 1846 by,
Humphrey St-John Mildmay (1794-1853), London, by descent to,
Henry Bingham Mildmay (1828-1905), London; his sale, Christie’s, London, 24 June 1893, lot 85 (410 gns. to Colnaghi).
Bevan collection, London; Robinson & Fisher, 10 November 1938, lot 102.
with Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm.
Private collection, Göteborg; Bukowskis, Stockholm, 29 November-1 December 1995, lot 257, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, VI, London, 1835, pp. 251-252, no. 8; Supplement, p. 742, no. 17.
G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, IV, London, 1857, p. 154.
C. Blanc, La trésor de la curiosité, II, Paris, 1858, p. 295.
W. Roberts, Memorials of Christie’s, II, London, 1897, p. 222.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1927, p. 499, no. 297.
K. Eisele, Jan Wijnants Ein Niederländischer Maler der Ideallandschaft im Goldenen Jahrhundert, Stuttgart, 2000, p. 148, no. 136, fig. 136.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1831, no. 103.
London, Royal Academy, 1876, no. 234.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Holländska mästare i svensk ägo, 3 March-30 April 1967, no. 179.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.