Nicolaes Berchem
Italianate river landscape with a shepherdesses, a shepherd playing the flute, animals, and ruins
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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Nicolaes Berchem
Haarlem 1621/22 - 1683 Amsterdam
Italianate river landscape with a shepherdesses, a shepherd playing the flute, animals, and ruins
signed lower left: NBerchem
oil on canvas
canvas: 34 by 36⅜ in.; 86.4 by 92.4 cm.
framed: 43⅝ by 45⅞ in.; 110.8 by 116.5 cm.
Probably, Peter Joseph von Franken-Siersdorf (d. 1727), Bishop of Antwerp;
Count Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff (1750-1842), Bad Driburg, who acquired the painting in Cologne (according to his 1817 catalogue);
Thence by descent to his son, Count Ernst von Sierstorpff (1813-1855), Bad Driburg;
Thence by descent to his son, Count Bruno von Sierstorpff (1855-1870), Bad Driburg;
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Count Ernst von Sierstorpff (d. 1879), Bad Driburg;
Thence by inheritance to his sister, Baroness Hedwig von Sierstorpff (d. 1887), Bad Driburg;
Her sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 19 April 1887, lot 36;
Probably, Counts of Minnigerode, Gut Silkerode;
Thence by descent to Irmgard von Minnigerode-Anglitten, until 1945;
Thence by descent in the Minnigerode family, Detmold, Münster, from 1947 - 2012;
Anonymous sale, Düsseldorf, Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen, 10 March 2012, lot 94.
Count Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff (1750-1842), Bad Driburg, who acquired the painting in Cologne (according to his 1817 catalogue);
Thence by descent to his son, Count Ernst von Sierstorpff (1813-1855), Bad Driburg;
Thence by descent to his son, Count Bruno von Sierstorpff (1855-1870), Bad Driburg;
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Count Ernst von Sierstorpff (d. 1879), Bad Driburg;
Thence by inheritance to his sister, Baroness Hedwig von Sierstorpff (d. 1887), Bad Driburg;
Her sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 19 April 1887, lot 36;
Probably, Counts of Minnigerode, Gut Silkerode;
Thence by descent to Irmgard von Minnigerode-Anglitten, until 1945;
Thence by descent in the Minnigerode family, Detmold, Münster, from 1947 - 2012;
Anonymous sale, Düsseldorf, Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen, 10 March 2012, lot 94.
C.H. von Sierstorpff, Für die Kunstfreunde, welche meine kleine Gemälde-Sammlung besuchen wollen, Braunschweig, 1817, pp. 133-138 cat. no 36 (as signed and dated 1679);
G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichnis der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, in alphabetischer Folge zusammengestellt, Berlin 1863-1864, vol. I, p. 104;
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, vol. 9, Esslingen 1926, p. 129f, cat. no. 272.
G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichnis der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, in alphabetischer Folge zusammengestellt, Berlin 1863-1864, vol. I, p. 104;
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, vol. 9, Esslingen 1926, p. 129f, cat. no. 272.
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