JOHANNES URSELINCX | A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A PEASANT WOMAN FEEDING DUCKS

Werner Dahl, Düsseldorf;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 17 October 1905, lot 149, for 155 Dutch florins;

With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1965;

F.C. Butôt, Sankt Gilgen, Austria, by 1972;

His posthumous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 16 November 1993, lot 33, for 55,200 Guilders, when acquired.

Salzburg, Museumpavillon im Mirabellgarten, 12 July – 12 September 1972; Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, 26 September 1972 – 14 January 1973, Niederländische Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert, unnumbered;

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Hollandse en Vlaamse Kunst uit de 17e eeuw, 16 February – 1 April 1973, unnumbered;

Frankenthal, Erkenbert Museum, Kunst, Kommerz, Glaubenskampf - Frankenthal um 1600, 1995, no. M30;

's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum, Panorama op de wereld: het landschap van Bosch tot Rubens, 17 March – 10 June 2001, no. 79;

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 142.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Vienna and Leipzig, 1906, vol. II, p. 726;

U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler..., vol. III, Leipzig 1926, p. 3;

Niederländisches Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert--Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Umkreis grosser Meister aus der Sammlung F.C. Butôt, exh. cat., Salzburg 1972, pp. 154–55;

Hollandse en Vlaamse kunst uit de 17e eeuw: hoogtepunten van minder bekende meesters: schilderijen en tekeningen uit de verzameling F.C. Butôt, exh. cat., Rotterdam 1973, pp. 156–57;

W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, vol. III, reproduced pl. 1279;

L.J. Bol, G. Keyes and F.C. Butôt, Netherlandish paintings and drawings from the collection of F.C. Butôt by little-known and rare masters of the seventeenth century, London 1981, p. 78, cat. no. 22, reproduced in colour;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 272–75, cat. no. 72, reproduced in colour;

P.H. Janssen et al., Panorama op de wereld: het landschap van Bosch tot Rubens, pp. 169–70, cat. no. 79, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 129, cat. no. 142, reproduced in colour.

Only a handful of paintings by this artist survive, four of which are signed – including the present work. In 1637 he is cited as an appraiser of pictures, but he also practiced another profession, as a wine merchant.