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Lot 24
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Jan Wijnants Haarlem (?) circa 1635 - 1684 Amsterdam

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Description

  • Jan Wijnants
  • A castle ruin near a meadow with travellers to the foreground
  • Signed and dated lower left: J Wijnants. A¢ª. 166 (6 or 8)
  • Oil on canvas, laid down on board

Provenance

With J. Smith, London, by 1841;
Unidentified sale, Paris, 1841 (according to Smith).

Literature

Possibly J. Smith, Catalogue raisonné, London 1842, p. 784, no. 35;
Possibly C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches verzeichnis der werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Esslingen/Paris 1923, Vol. VIII, p. 478, no. 52;
W. Droost, Barockmalerei in die germanischen Ländern, date unknown, no. 52.

Catalogue Note

With an expertise of Dr. W. Bernt, dated 1962, as Jan Wijnants.