Old Master Paintings, Part 2

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Lot 126
  • 126

Cornelis Saftleven Gorinchem 1607 - 1681 Rotterdam

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Description

  • Cornelis Saftleven
  • Huntsman feeding his dogs under a porch with a farmyard beyond

  • oil on panel

Provenance

Louis Dürr (1821-1880), New York;
Acquired from the Estate of the above in 1882 by the New York Historical Society;
Their sale, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1995, lot 2, for $52,000.

Literature

Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of the New York Historical Society, New York 1915, p. 111, no. D-93 (as Aelbert Cuyp);
W. Schulz, Cornelis Saftleven 1607-1681. Leben und Werke, Berlin/New York 1978, p. 215, cat. no. 595.

Catalogue Note

There is a preparatory drawing for the figure of the huntsman feeding his dogs, dated 1652, in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin (reproduced in Schulz, see Literature, cat. no. 48, plate 69).