Aert van der Neer Amsterdam circa 1603/4 - 1677

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 EUR

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Description

Aert van der Neer
a winter landscape with figures and horse-drawn sleighs on a frozen canal in a town by moonlight, with a triple-arched bridge and a church in the background
signed in monogram lower right: AVDN
oil on canvas

Provenance

Probably Peter Snijers, Antwerp, by 1747 (see note above);
W.W. Knighton, London
His sale, London, Christie’s, 23 May 1885, lot 492 (84 guineas to Colnaghi);
L. Nardus, Suresnes;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Fred. Muller, 30 June 1909, lot 126, reproduced;
With Frederik Muller, Amsterdam 1911;
Offered, Amsterdam, Fred. Muller, 6 May 1913, lot 74, reproduced.

Exhibited

London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the Bristish School, January - March 1883, cat. no. 257;
Amsterdam, Fred. Muller, Importants Tableaux Anciens Exposition, 1911, cat. no. 11.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke..., vol. VII, Esslingen/Paris 1918, p. 505, no. 583;
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, p. 166, no. 122, reproduced fig. 66.

Catalogue Note

The present work is depicted in a painting by the Antwerp painter Peter Snijers (1681-1752), signed and dated 1747 (supposedly a self portrait), sold London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1993, lot 233 (see Fig. 1). Snijers was a prolific collector and at least one moonlit landscape by Aert van der Neer was included in his posthumous sale.

Wolfgang Schulz dates this painting to the late 1660s (see Literature).