Attributed to Pieter Boddingh van Laer

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Pieter Boddingh van Laer
a Night scene with brigands; A shepherd and shepherdess with their flock
a pair, both oil on canvas, the latter unframed
Each: 38.5 by 28.7 cm

Literature

V. Fanti, Descrizzione completa di tutto ciò che ritrovasi nella galleria di pittura e scultura di Sua Altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao del S.R.I. Principe Regnante della casa di Lichtenstein, Vienna 1767, p. 58, cat. nos. 337 and 338 (as Jan Ossenbeeck);
J. D. von Dalling, Description des Tableaux, et des Pièces de Sculpture, que renferme la Gallerie de son Altesse François Joseph Chef et Prince Regnant de la Maison de Liechtenstein, Vienna 1780, p. 75, cat. nos. 207 and 208 (as Pieter van Laer);
Sammlungskatalog, manuscript, 1805, no. 242 (as Pieter van Laer);
J. Falke, Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1873, p. 80, no. 691 and p. 78, no. 675 (as Pieter van Laer);
J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1885, p. 86, no. 639 and p. 60, no. 439 (as Pieter van Laer);
W. Bode, Die Fürstlich Liechtenstein'sche Galerie in Wien, Vienna 1896, p. 89 (as not by Pieter van Laer);
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. II, Vien-Leipzig 1910, p. 4;
A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1931, p. 123, cat. no. 639.

Catalogue Note

Two other versions of the latter composition are known. The first resides in a Private Collection in Basel (A. Blankert, Over Pieter van Laer als dier- en landschapschilder' in Oud Holland 83 (1966), p. 117-134, fig. 3, as Pieter van Laer or after Pieter van Laer). The second exists in the collections of the Akademie der Bildeneden Künste in Vienna (see R. Eigenberger, Die Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, Vienna-Leipzig 1927, p. 115, inv. no. 887, as In the style of Karel Dujardin).