Maerten Fransz. van der Hulft

With H. M. Clark, London, 1919;
With D. Katz, Dieren;
H. E. ten Cate collection, Almelo;
Thence by descent.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, 1929, no. 197 (as Jan van Goyen);
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche winterlandschappen uit de 17de eauw, 6- 29 February 1932, no. 34 (as van Goyen);
New York, Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York World's Fair, 1939, cat. no 155 (as van Goyen);
Detroit, Institute of Arts, Masterpieces of Art from Foreign Collections, 1939, no. 16 (as van Goyen);
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting, December 1939- January 1940, no. L56 (as van Goyen);
Detroit, Institute of Arts, Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections. Twenty-Second Loan Exhibition oh Old Masters, 1941, no. 22 (as van Goyen);
Montreal, Art Association, Five Centuries of Dutch Art, 9 March - 9 April 1944, no. 38 (as van Goyen);
Springfield, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan, according to a label on the reverse (as van Goyen);
Toledo, The Museum of Art, according to a label on the reverse.

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works... vol. VIII, London 1927, p. 304, cat. no. 1203 (as van Goyen);
D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H. E. ten Cate collection, Rotterdam 1955, vol. I, p. 6, cat. no. 5 (as van Goyen);
H.- U. Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 171, cat. no. 453, reproduced p. 170 (as van der Hulft).

The panel is stable, slightly convex, and bevelled on all four sides. The paint surface is thick and in good condition, with the extremely delicate brushstrokes in the sky and clouds still intact and very represetative of air and movement of air. The faces of the two men on the right are rather clumsy, but those of the men on the left are superb, with very characteristic features well- captured and entertaining to view. Inspection under UV light reveals old spot retouching throughout the sky and to a lesser degree in the ice, otherwise there is no indication of restoration and clearly this work has been a well - looked after. It is offered in an old wood carved frame, unpainted, in good condition.
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