AERT JANSZ. MARIENHOF | Rocky landscape with hunters wearing oriental costume, conversing on a rocky path

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 December 1991, lot 201, where acquired.

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau 1983, vol. VI, p. 3733 under no. 2385a, reproduced in colour;

Robert-Koepke-Haus, Wege durch das land inventar der landschaft. Niederländische Landschaftsschilderungen von 16. bid 18. Jahrhundert, exh. cat., Schwalenburg 2000, cat. no. 2;

P. Huys Janssen et al, Panorama op de wereld: het landschap van Bosch tot Rubens, exh. cat., 's-Hertogenbosch 2001, cat. no. 97, reproduced in colour p. 191;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 144-47, cat. no. 33, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 100, cat. no. 97, reproduced in colour;

N. Büttner, '"Cacatum non est pictum." Uberlegungen zu einem übersehenen Thema der frühneuzeitlichen Kunst', in Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, N.F. II, 2016, p. 158, reproduced in colour fig. 13.

Marienhof is known as a history painter, and landscapes such as this are extremely rare. Most of his pictures were painted in Utrecht before 1650, by which year, according to Houbraken, he had moved to Brussels. The present picture, one of his latest works, shows the influence of Brussels School landscapists such as Lodewijk de Vadder and Jacques d'Arthois.