Old Master Paintings, Part 2

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Lot 119
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Herman van Swanevelt Woerden (?) circa 1600 - 1655 Paris

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Description

  • Herman van Swanevelt
  • an italianate landscape with travellers on a path
  • signed and dated on the rock centre right: HVS (in ligature) WANEVELT. FA/ R 1649
    inscribed with an old inventory number on the reverse of the panel: No 41
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, inv. 53/139, acquired in 1953, and sometimes kept at Schloss Pillnitz;
Restituted to the heirs of the previous owner in 2001.

Catalogue Note

Swanevelt painted highly distinctive Southern landscapes seen in windy weather in the years around 1650.  Another comparable picture, also dated 1649, was sold in London, Christie's, 18 March 1955, lot 99.  These landscapes anticipate by some 150 years the stormy Italianate subjects of Hendrick Voogd and Simon Denis, and are so similar to them, that it would be hard to deny that they had exerted a strong influence.